cadrs v0.1.5

Downloads

Platform	File
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or newer)	cadrs-v0.1.5-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
Windows x86_64 (Windows 10 or 11)	cadrs-v0.1.5-x86_64-windows.zip

Each archive holds the executable, its libraries/ folder (the built-in symbols, footprints and 3D models), the README and the licenses. Nothing needs installing: unpack it and run cadrs (Linux) or cadrs.exe (Windows), keeping libraries/ beside it. SHA256SUMS.txt has the files' checksums.

On Linux, the app needs a Vulkan-capable GPU driver, and ALSA and udev (present on desktop distributions). The Windows build isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info › Run anyway.

Documents are saved in ~/.local/share/cadrs/ on Linux and %APPDATA%\cadrs\ on Windows.

What's new since v0.1.4

• PCB boards in Part Studios and Assemblies.
  • Derive a board from a PCB Studio into a Part Studio as its 3D model or its layout, with an outline that can follow a sketch.
  • Edit the layout in 3D: grab footprints and tracks on the board and move them; the airwires follow while you drag.
  • Fitting aids: line a pad up with a pin or a mate connector's axis, Align onto a mate connector, room readouts.
  • Edit a board in context in an assembly, also inside a subassembly; what its components run into is listed.
  • STEP export and drawings use the components' real models; IDF boards derive too.
• Schematic.
  • An unbounded sheet with no paper edge, frame or title block.
  • Wires split into pieces between joins, with end drags; rows of pins re-run clean.
  • Pastes land centred on the pointer; joins are marked on pin ends and net labels.
  • New wires take the colour of the wires they join; a colour editor for wires.
  • The symbol chooser's list scrolls with the mouse wheel.
  • Schematics pasted into another PCB Studio bring their parts; Copy, Paste and Add to my library for components.
  • New power ports for AC live and neutral.
• Layout.
  • An auto-router (on the GPU when there is one), with clean 45° routes and no vias on SMD pads.
  • Drag tracks and their ends, box select, rotate several at once, zones on Z.
  • Double-click a track to select its net; Shift+double-click adds a net to the selection.
• Part Studio.
  • Double-click a face, edge, vertex, sketch or part to edit the feature that made it; the feature list opens and scrolls to it.
  • Direct edits: Delete face, Move face and Simplify.
  • Drop PNG, JPEG or GIF files into a Part Studio to insert pictures.
  • Sketches: hover, select and constrain to part vertices; dimensions to part edges; Esc never leaves the sketch.
  • Extrude: previews of the change and smoother arrow drags.
• Faster with large documents.
  • The history is saved in the background, so edits no longer freeze the app for seconds.
  • Closing a document keeps only the history versions need: a 213 MB history became 1.6 MB, and the document opens in a fraction of the time.
• Onshape import. Part Studios with derived parts import fully.
• MCP server. AI assistants can drive the running app: documents, sketches, features, STEP in and out, drawings and boards.
• Fixes. Right-clicking a document on the Documents page no longer crashes the app.

cadrs v0.1.4

Downloads

Platform	File
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or newer)	cadrs-v0.1.4-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
Windows x86_64 (Windows 10 or 11)	cadrs-v0.1.4-x86_64-windows.zip

Each archive holds the executable, its libraries/ folder (the built-in symbols, footprints and 3D models), the README and the licenses. Nothing needs installing: unpack it and run cadrs (Linux) or cadrs.exe (Windows), keeping libraries/ beside it. SHA256SUMS.txt has the files' checksums.

On Linux, the app needs a Vulkan-capable GPU driver, and ALSA and udev (present on desktop distributions). The Windows build isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info › Run anyway.

Documents are saved in ~/.local/share/cadrs/ on Linux and %APPDATA%\cadrs\ on Windows.

What's new since v0.1.3

• Schematic and PCB design in PCB Studio. Draw a board's schematic and layout in cadrs, KiCad style, then see it in 3D.
  • Schematic:
    • place symbols (R rotates them while placing) and draw wires; junctions are added for you, and overlapping wires are joined;
    • labels and global labels, text, mirror, copy/paste/duplicate, find, net highlight;
    • wires stay on their pins and square when parts move;
    • colour a wire, and the wires connected to it change with it;
    • choose a symbol's footprint from the library;
    • plot to PDF and SVG, and export the netlist.
  • Layout:
    • tracks, zones with see-through fills, keep-outs;
    • lines, rectangles, circles and text with height, thickness and alignment;
    • import an SVG graphic (a logo) onto any layer;
    • drag footprints with the mouse; footprint and shape properties;
    • a layers panel with high-contrast mode, net highlighting, track width stepping, a ruler;
    • DRC, including missing courtyards and silkscreen over pads;
    • pad numbers and net names on the pads, net names along the tracks.
  • 3D:
    • boards drawn in cadrs show their solder mask, copper, gold pads and silkscreen;
    • footprints carry VRML, STEP or OBJ models in their own colours;
    • after zoom to fit the view orbits about the board, and with components selected, about them.
  • Component editors: a pin table, arrange pins as a box, pad arrays, renumbering.
  • Outputs: STEP with the parts' models, and JLCPCB BOM and placement files.
• Libraries.
  • Symbols, footprints and 3D models ship as files in a library folder, and the library browser shows them.
  • Search JLCPCB parts and download them, with their symbol, footprint and 3D model, into your own library (~/.local/share/cadrs/libraries on Linux).
• PCB Studio assemblies.
  • Create an assembly from a board, with component documents and version-pinned references.
• Documents page.
  • A document with only a board shows the board in its thumbnail.
  • The details panel's thumbnail is sharp.

cadrs v0.1.3

Downloads

Platform	File
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or newer)	cadrs-v0.1.3-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
Windows x86_64 (Windows 10 or 11)	cadrs-v0.1.3-x86_64-windows.zip

Each archive holds the single executable, the README and the licenses. Nothing needs installing: unpack it and run cadrs (Linux) or cadrs.exe (Windows). SHA256SUMS.txt has the files' checksums.

On Linux, the app needs a Vulkan-capable GPU driver, and ALSA and udev (present on desktop distributions). The Windows build isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info › Run anyway.

Documents are saved in ~/.local/share/cadrs/ on Linux and %APPDATA%\cadrs\ on Windows.

What's new since v0.1.2

• Sheet metal. Sheet metal model (Convert, Extrude, Thicken), Flange, Hem, Tab, Bend, Jog, Make joint, Modify joint, Corner, Bend relief, Corner break, Finish, Sheet metal Loft and Form, with a library of forms (louver, bridge lance, dimple, emboss, extruded hole).
  • The Sheet metal table and flat view: bends and joints you can edit in place, and the flat pattern beside the model, highlighting with it.
  • Sketch and cut directly in the flat view; export the flat as DXF/DWG; insert a DXF or DWG into a sketch.
  • Flat pattern drawings with bend lines and bend notes.
  • Import a legacy sheet metal part (Thicken with tangent propagation and its bend cylinders), and use sheet metal in top-down design with Derived.
• Viewing. Render modes (with or without edges, hidden edges, translucent, hidden lines removed or visible), perspective, zoom to window, previous view and named views.
• Section view. Up to four section planes (two cut a wedge), items to exclude or include, an offset arrow and a rotation arc, and hatched caps.
• Analysis. Draft analysis, curvature map and combs, and zebra stripes; mouse controls as in Onshape, SolidWorks, Inventor or Creo.
• Branches. Branch a workspace from a version and merge it back, choosing per tab what to keep.
• Suppress by variable. A feature can be switched off by a variable.
• Feature list. Click selects one feature, Shift+click a range, Ctrl+click adds or removes one. The sketch's right-click menu offers Extrude, Revolve, Offset plane, Section view and more.
• The Drill sample: Onshape's Hands-On Test Drive, step by step.

See the README for building from source.

cadrs is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by PTC or Onshape.

cadrs v0.1.2

Downloads

Platform	File
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or newer)	cadrs-v0.1.2-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
Windows x86_64 (Windows 10 or 11)	cadrs-v0.1.2-x86_64-windows.zip

Each archive holds the single executable, the README and the licenses. Nothing needs installing: unpack it and run cadrs (Linux) or cadrs.exe (Windows). SHA256SUMS.txt has the files' checksums.

On Linux, the app needs a Vulkan-capable GPU driver, and ALSA and udev (present on desktop distributions). The Windows build isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info › Run anyway.

Documents are saved in ~/.local/share/cadrs/ on Linux and %APPDATA%\cadrs\ on Windows.

What's new since v0.1.0

• Managed in-context design. Edit a part in the context of its assembly: a ghosted snapshot of the assembly to sketch on, project edges from and extrude or revolve up to. A Part Studio can hold several contexts; you pick the active one, rename, update or delete it. Primary and secondary instances show in-context arrows, and a dot marks a context that needs updating. Contexts also work with linked documents.
• Onshape import brings across assemblies (instances, mates, part colours, folders) and in-context features. All 108 test documents import in about 5 minutes, and no feature takes more than 10 s to rebuild.
• Faster and more responsive.
  • Opening an assembly no longer blocks on its Part Studios' rebuilds.
  • Rebuilds show "Rebuilding… n / total".
  • Reopening a document restores its last rebuild.
  • Large assemblies no longer freeze the app.
  • Viewport rendering and picking are faster.
• Measure tool, and the left panel can now be resized: drag its right edge.
• Fixes, including a crash opening a sweep of a circle around a circle (a torus) and hangs adding some extrudes.

See the README for building from source.

cadrs is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by PTC or Onshape.

cadrs v0.1.0

The first public release of cadrs, a parametric, feature-based CAD app written in Rust, with a Bevy UI and an OpenCASCADE modeling kernel.

Early software. cadrs is under active development. Expect rough edges, and document formats that may still change between versions.

Downloads

Platform	File
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or newer)	cadrs-v0.1.0-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
Windows x86_64 (Windows 10 or 11)	cadrs-v0.1.0-x86_64-windows.zip

Each archive holds the single executable, the README and the licenses. Nothing needs installing: unpack it and run cadrs (Linux) or cadrs.exe (Windows). SHA256SUMS.txt has the files' checksums.

On Linux, the app needs a Vulkan-capable GPU driver, and ALSA and udev (present on desktop distributions). The Windows build isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info › Run anyway.

Documents are saved in ~/.local/share/cadrs/ on Linux and %APPDATA%\cadrs\ on Windows.

What's in it

• Sketching with snapping and inference (including to part edges), geometric constraints, driving dimensions and a solver that keeps the sketch consistent while you drag.
• Part Studios: extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, fillet, chamfer, shell, draft, hole, patterns, mirror, booleans, Transform, planes, mate connectors, thicken, fill and helix, all editable afterwards.
• Assemblies with mates, a triad to move parts, exploded views and a bill of materials.
• Drawings with views, sections, dimensions, annotations and BOM tables.
• Versions and history, derived parts and linked documents, variables and expressions, measurements and mass properties, linear static simulation, a path-traced renderer, PCB Studio with IDF import and export, and STEP, IGES and STL import and export.
• Onshape import: bring your own Onshape documents across with their feature history (see tools/onshape in the source).

See the README for building from source.

cadrs is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by PTC or Onshape.