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I made the fastest open source CAD renderer in the world

12 points by StefanGolas ago | 4 comments

StefanGolas |next [-]

I made this by forking the existing rust CAD kernel truck and refactoring it from 60% face recovery to 99.9%. Now it's the fastest open source STEP renderer in the world by whole number multiples (at least 3x on moderately complex assemblies). Purpose built for agentic CAD.

willturman |previous [-]

This is awesome.

Was there a particular application that inspired you to make this?

StefanGolas |root |parent [-]

Agentic CAD is very much bottlenecked by rendering time (as well as generation time). If you make a small change to a big model you need to reload the whole thing which can take minutes.

StefanGolas |root |parent [-]

Also if this is former ginkgo employee will turman, hi will! We have met before