CADCraft

Computer-aided design and drafting; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Autodesk AutoCAD, rebuilt in pure Rust.

A fast, open-source take on the AutoCAD workflow: the command line, object snaps, layers, dimensions, hatches, blocks and DXF drawings you already know. It runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly.
By the ArtCraft team.

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_{Apartment plan (examples/apartment.dxf): walls with pick-point hatching, TrueType MTEXT room labels, a TABLE, a multileader and architectural dimensions — built entirely from CADCraft commands.}

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Layouts: paper space with viewports, page setups and PLOT to PDF. Double-click a viewport to work in model space through it.	Mounting bracket: a two-view part drawing with centre lines, hidden lines, an ANSI31 section hatch and a title block.

• The workflow you know. Type L, click two points, type @5<45, press Enter. The command line, prompts with clickable [Keywords], AutoComplete, object snaps, polar tracking, ortho, direct distance entry, window and crossing selection, grips, and right-click-to-repeat behave the way decades of drafting habit expect.
• Open files. DXF is read and written natively (ASCII and binary, R12 through 2018), and DWG files (R13 through 2018) open and save through the open-source acadrust library. Export to SVG and PNG today.
• Fast and native. Pure Rust and egui, no Electron, no web view. One binary on macOS (universal), Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, plus a WebAssembly build for the browser.
• Built for agents. Every menu item, tool and prompt is a command. Agents can type at the command line exactly like a person, call any command with JSON, inspect the drawing to verify their work, and render it — over MCP, a JSON control channel, or the CLI.
• Free. MIT OR Apache-2.0, with no account and no subscription.

CADCraft is in early, fast development. Honest status (see ROADMAP.md for parity numbers):

git clone https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft
cd cadcraft
cargo run --release -p cadcraft -- --sample       # opens the sample drawing

Then try typing at the command line:

line 0,0 @10,0 @0,5 c          a closed triangle
circle 5,2 1                    a circle
offset 0.25                     then pick the circle and a side
zoom e                          zoom to extents

The web build: cd apps/cadcraft-web && trunk serve (needs trunk).

# MCP server on stdio, headless:
cadcraft-cli mcp
# …or bridged to the running app (start it with --control 7979):
cadcraft-cli mcp --connect 127.0.0.1:7979

# One-shot headless runs:
cadcraft-cli run --sample --script 'CIRCLE 22,3 1\n' --save out.dxf --export out.png
cadcraft-cli info drawing.dxf
cadcraft-cli convert drawing.dxf drawing.svg

MCP tools include command_line (type at the prompt), execute (any command with JSON), inspect_drawing, query_entities, render (returns a PNG) and, when connected to the app, screenshot and ui_click. The desktop app's JSON control channel is documented in docs/control-protocol.md.

geom ─┐                       f64 geometry: arcs, bulges, splines, intersections, offsets
dxf   │  (standalone)         DXF tag reader/writer
color ┤                       colour index, true colour
doc   ┤                       drawing database, copy-on-write entity store (cheap undo)
fonts ┤ render               stroke font + TEXT/MTEXT layout │ display lists, linetypes, hatches, dims, CPU raster
io    ┤                       DXF mapping, SVG/PNG export
engine┤                       sessions, commands, command line + prompts, snaps, selection, undo
ui-egui · mcp                 the swappable egui front end · MCP server
apps: cadcraft · cadcraft-cli · cadcraft-web

Nothing below ui-egui knows about egui, so the front end can be replaced. cargo xtask ci checks formatting, clippy, tests, asset attribution, the crate layering and the wasm build.

See ROADMAP.md for milestones, measured parity and the estimate of remaining work.

Download CADCraft from GitHub: the latest release has every build listed below, and all releases has earlier versions and their notes. <ver> in the file names is the version number, and SHA256SUMS.txt lists a checksum for every file.

Installers and executables are code-signed.

CADCraft is one of the Crafting Apps: free, open-source creative tools from the ArtCraft team, each written from scratch in Rust and each able to stand on its own.

	App	What it's for	Code	Learn more
	PhotoCraft	Image editing: layers, masks, type and real PSD files	GitHub	Website
	VectorCraft	Vector illustration	GitHub	Website
	FilmCraft	Video editing, color and sound	GitHub	Website
	LightCraft	Photo library and raw development	GitHub	Website
	PdfCraft	Reading, organizing and protecting PDFs	GitHub	Website
	EffectCraft	Motion graphics and visual effects	GitHub	Website
	DesignCraft	Page layout and publishing	GitHub	Website
	CADCraft	Computer-aided design and drafting · you are here	GitHub	Website

And ArtCraft itself, our AI image and video studio for artists who want real control.

Our Discord is where artists of every kind hang out: people who paint, shoot, draw, cut film, set type, and people still figuring out what they like to make. Share what you're working on, ask for help, tell us what's broken, or tell us what you wish these tools could do. Whatever your medium and however long you've been at it, you're welcome here.

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CADCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option. Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the CADCraft contributors. Required notices are in NOTICE.

Bundled fonts, icons, images and other assets keep their own open licenses; each one is listed with its author, source and license in ATTRIBUTION.md.

CADCraft's icons, its single-stroke drafting font, its hatch patterns and its linetypes are all original work, drawn or defined in code. The sample drawings are generated in code too.

The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodified, and only as part of this repository and CADCraft, under docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt. Forks and modified versions must remove them.

_{Autodesk, AutoCAD and DWG are trademarks or registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. CADCraft is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Autodesk, Inc.; these names are used only to describe the workflows and file formats it is compatible with.}

_{Made by the ArtCraft team and community.}