Fornjot is an early-stage CAD kernel, using boundary representation (b-rep), written in the Rust programming language.
As a CAD kernel, the project's main goal is to provide a solid foundation for developers to build on top of, whether for special purpose tooling, third-party libraries for extending Fornjot's feature set, or full-featured CAD applications.
In doing so, Fornjot follows these principles:
- Focus on mechanical CAD applications, like 3D printing, machining, woodworking; over other use cases such as architecture or electronics.
- Favor reliability over features. Anything you can do should either work as expected, or result in a clear and actionable error.
- Maintain a friendly API for directly defining models in Rust. This means code-first CAD modeling (or Code-CAD) is natively supported.
- Support code-first CAD modeling in other languages, by enabling third-party APIs.
Fornjot is still in development and doesn't always live up to these ambitions. None the less, these are the priorities the project follows.
Sponsors
Fornjot is supported by @reivilibre, @thestig4242, @thomasgarrison, @seanjensengrey, @lthiery, @ahdinosaur, @martindederer, @sucaba, @MitchellHansen, @Rahix, @JanBerktold, @darwin, @nullstyle, @HalfVoxel, @jessebraham, @jminer, @U007D, @guillaumechauvat, @mayfieldiv, @bglw, @refarb, @hansihe, @romixlab, @justinmimbs, @yikesable, @hrgdavor, @ironchief, @kingsmountainlabs, @epyintheshell, @jneem, @starthal, and my other awesome sponsors. Thank you!
If you're interested in helping to make the project sustainable long-term, please consider sponsoring Fornjot yourself.