CADder
Blender CAD file import Addon & Direct SolidWorks Bridge
Details
- External ID
- 1375648394
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- CADder
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4260184473481937
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- cad import addon and solidworks bridge for blender users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Bridging SolidWorks and Blender requires deep reverse engineering of CAD kernels, COM/OLE IPC mechanisms for SolidWorks, and complex B-Rep to polygonal mesh tessellation algorithms.
What it would actually take: Building this requires a SolidWorks add-in in C++ or C# communicating via named pipes or local sockets to a Python Blender addon. The hard parts are writing a custom tessellation/meshing pipeline that preserves sharp edges, vertex normals, and hierarchy metadata without using proprietary Autodesk/Siemens libraries, along with real-time bidirectional synchronization between two disparate 3D engines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
- CADder-SW-Bridge · github · 2026-09-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install) · hn · 2026-04-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Fusion to Blender Bridge · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- DLSS5-composite-node-for-blender · github · 2026-09-22 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- blender-mcp · github · 2026-09-09 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- dsh-blender-plugin · github · 2026-09-13 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- We built a tool that generates 3D objects with editable, separate parts · hn · 2026-05-08 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- wow-ai · github · 2026-09-23 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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