What is it?

SolidCraft is an open-source parametric CAD application written in pure Rust, built around the SolidWorks way of working. You define a sketch with dimensions and constraints, then model with extrude, revolve, sweep, and loft, and re-edit any earlier step from the timeline. The mouse navigation presets include SolidWorks, and the same command engine drives the desktop GUI, the web build, the headless CLI, and the MCP server. It was published on 2026-10-07.

What can it do?

• Parametric sketching with its own constraint solver
• Extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, fillet, shell, sheet metal
• Assembly joints and interference checks
• STEP, IGES, 3MF, STL, OBJ, glTF, URDF import and export
• One command engine for desktop, web, CLI, and MCP
• Timeline rollback and .solidcraft files

Who is it for?

Hobby modelers and CAD beginners who want to learn SolidWorks-style parametric modeling without license costs

Pros

• Apache-2.0 open source
• Linux AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak, and Snap builds
• SolidWorks preset in the mouse navigation options
• Korean UI at 1,238/1,565 keys (78%)
• Source build finished in 5m 33s on 16 cores

Cautions

• Published 2026-10-07 and already carrying 1,167 open issues
• Not a full replacement for commercial CAD
• 327 untranslated Korean keys fall back to English
• Features change daily, so pin a version while learning

Choosing SolidCraft

SolidCraft sits in the Craft category at Medium difficulty. everyday use is simple, but integration and setup expect some prior experience. runs on Personal PC · Linux. This page records 6 features, 5 pros and 4 cautions, so trade-offs can be reviewed in one place before adoption.

Other tools in this category

The Craft category also lists AgentCAD, doop, OpenDesign, Open CoDesign, video-use, OpenPencil, slides-grab, OpenCut, Compositor, ArtCraft, PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft, LightCraft, PdfCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, FigCraft, WordCraft, SoundCraft, DeckCraft, CADCraft, GridCraft. AgentCAD has the same difficulty (Medium), so compare features and runtime environments to find where they split. Within a category the deciding factors are difficulty and runtime environment; each item below links to its own detail page.

• AgentCAD — A CAD tool that runs CAD scripts written by coding agents and exports STEP and mesh files (Medium)
• doop — An open-source multiplayer design canvas that replaces Paper.design, edited by people and AI agents together (Medium)
• OpenDesign — An open-source design workspace that takes a brief to a prototype together with coding agents (Medium)
• Open CoDesign — A desktop app that makes prototypes, slides and PDFs locally from prompts, as an open-source Claude Design alternative (Easy)
• video-use — An open-source video editing workflow that handles cuts, subtitles and color from a clip folder and a Claude Code chat (Hard)
• OpenPencil — An open-source design editor that opens Figma files and edits them through AI chat, CLI and MCP (Medium)
• slides-grab — A slide workflow that lets you drag a region on AI-generated HTML slides and ask an agent to edit it (Medium)
• OpenCut — Open-source video editor aimed at CapCut and Premiere workflows — web, desktop, mobile (Easy)
• Compositor — Open-source Photoshop alternative for macOS — layers, masks, Camera Raw (Medium)
• ArtCraft — Open-source AI image and video studio for artists — world compositing, 3D blocking and character posing (Medium)
• PhotoCraft — Clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust — layers, masks, adjustment layers and real PSD files (Easy)
• VectorCraft — Adobe Illustrator workflow reimagined in pure Rust — fast vector illustration with live-editable effects (Medium)
• FilmCraft — Adobe Premiere-class editor rebuilt from scratch in pure Rust, down to its own codecs (Medium)
• LightCraft — Adobe Lightroom-class photo library and raw developer in open source — no account, no cloud, no telemetry (Easy)
• PdfCraft — Open-source PDF workbench — read, organize, combine, split and secure without Acrobat subscription (Easy)
• EffectCraft — After Effects-class motion graphics and VFX, rebuilt in pure Rust — 259 effects, expressions and 3D cameras (Medium)
• DesignCraft — InDesign-class page layout rebuilt in pure Rust with a Knuth–Plass paragraph composer (Medium)
• FigCraft — Figma-class interface design and prototyping rebuilt in pure Rust — auto layout, variants, variables and Dev Mode (Medium)
• WordCraft — Microsoft Word-class word processor built in pure Rust, reading and writing .docx (Easy)
• SoundCraft — Pro Tools/Audition-class DAW built in pure Rust — Edit/Mix windows, automation and 9.1.6 surround (Medium)
• DeckCraft — PowerPoint-class presentations rebuilt in pure Rust with .pptx compatibility and slide masters (Easy)
• CADCraft — AutoCAD-class 2D drafting in pure Rust — command line, snaps, layouts and associative dimensioning (Medium)
• GridCraft — Excel-class spreadsheets rebuilt in pure Rust — 500-plus functions, dynamic arrays and PivotTables on .xlsx (Easy)

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Hands-on Testing

Cloned, built from source, and launched (2026-10-20, Ubuntu). cargo build --release -p solidcraft took 5m 33s; Vulkan/MSAA 4x window confirmed. Korean catalog 1,238/1,565 keys.