Audience
People designing, editing, inspecting, or exchanging 3D mechanical parts and assemblies, including CAD users, makers, and engineers.
About SolidCraft
SolidCraft is an open-source parametric 3D CAD application for designing and revising parts and assemblies. Users create dimensioned, constrained sketches, add features such as extrusions, revolutions, fillets, shells, holes, and patterns, and edit designs through a feature timeline with parameters and configurations. It includes component assemblies, joints, motion studies, sheet-metal workflows, and plastic-part tools. Desktop and browser editors, command-line tools, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support interactive, scripted, and agent-assisted modeling. SolidCraft imports and exports formats including STEP, IGES, STL, OBJ, and 3MF, with format-specific limits; assemblies can also be exported as URDF. The software serves people who design, inspect, edit, or exchange mechanical parts and assemblies.
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Includes constrained sketches, per-edge fillets and chamfers, patterns, sweep and loft, assemblies with mates and a bill of materials, and 30+ generators for gears, threads, enclosures, Gridfinity bins and hinges. Imports STL, 3MF, OBJ, STEP and OpenSCAD; exports STL, 3MF, OBJ, GLB, STEP, DXF and SVG.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
Free
Pricing Details:
Open source
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Company Information
Tangency Labs
solidcraft.io
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SolidCraft CAD workspace showing a modeled electronic enclosure with vents and cutouts.
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