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Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables

47 points • by pmkary • yesterday at 8:29 AM • 10 comments • view on HN

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mkeeter • today at 3:57 PM

This could use a (2015) label :)

I've been tapering off maintenance since 2016 or so, but it has a more actively-maintained fork over at https://github.com/nsfm/stibium (albeit with heavy LLM assistance, because it's 2026!)

YMMV – I haven't used it or closely inspected the changes, but have corresponded with the author, who seems genuinely dedicated in the success of the project.

WillAdams • today at 4:16 PM

This probably merits noting that the whole Code CAD thing is getting pushed very hard lately with many new AI-driven projects.

I will note the following projects which have made recent advancements:

- OpenSCAD --- the hopefully final Release Candidate for the long-awaited update is now available: https://openscad.org/downloads.html#rc

- PythonSCAD --- for folks who want variables which change and so forth: https://www.pythonscad.org/

- CADquery --- https://cadquery.github.io/

- Build123D --- https://github.com/gumyr/build123d

Longer list/discussion at: https://github.com/Irev-Dev/curated-code-cad

Also, a more recent project by Matt Keeter, Halfspace was announced recently but didn't get much discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881890

badlibrarian • today at 4:06 PM

To anyone else who had to parse early KiCad file formats, where the parentheses and quoting on S-expressions was more of a guideline than a rule, I salute you.

IshKebab • today at 4:01 PM

I was all ready to say how useless code-based CAD usually is (like OpenSCAD), but this actually looks pretty sick.

If you could add support for SolveSpace's 2D sketcher, and also bevels/fillets, then this might actually be useful.

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