SimpleCAD
Direct modeling for FreeCAD, in the spirit of SketchUp: draw, push/pull and edit faces directly, and turn STL meshes into editable CAD.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 38 upvotes (top 35%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- direct-modeling
- freecad
- freecad-addon
- freecad-workbench
- stl
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Partial The UI and FreeCAD addon scaffolding are vibe-codeable, but direct modeling on top of OpenCASCADE, including face splitting, shelling, offsetting, and fitting CAD surfaces to STL meshes, requires real geometry-kernel expertise that vibe coding won't reliably supply.
What it would actually take: Build as a FreeCAD workbench in Python, using the Part and Mesh APIs and the OpenCASCADE kernel underneath. The hard parts are robust topological edits on B-rep faces and converting triangle meshes into editable planes, cylinders, and smooth surfaces. That takes a developer who knows CAD kernels, numerical geometry, and FreeCAD internals, plus extensive testing on edge cases.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #394 of 996 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
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More details
- External ID
- 1427265174
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- SimpleCAD
- Website domain
- github.io
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.65
- All tags
- direct-modeling, freecad, freecad-addon, freecad-workbench, stl
- AI summary
- sketchup-style direct modeling tool for freecad
- Manually corrected
- No