Show HN: ChokokuCAD – A breakthrough CAD application on the browser

Agree with the other commenter, this definitely needs more details to describe the nature of the breakthrough. Sophisticated CAD in the browser is not a new thing. For example, Onshape is a CAD application meant for design and manufacturing of rather sophisticated products, and the user portion runs in the browser.

The problem in CAD space isn't the tooling or design capabilities - it's the data model.

It is a freaking nightmare trying to unwind interlinked assets, class libraries, custom components, manually entered specs and annotations, and convert it into something resembling a database (of any variety, we went with a graph DB because it offered more flexibility ...)

AVEVA has a lot of the pieces for this, but they've never put it together into a compelling product.

Ripe for disruption, especially with ML-assisted design.

There's definitely a lot of need for innovation in CAD, so nice work building and putting something out there.

I don't see any details in the readme. It's kind of hard to evaluate what you've built without them. Care to flush it out or describe more here?

OnShape does it better. https://www.onshape.com/en/

But hey, new entrant into the market, keep trying! OnShape is expensive and could use some competition.

The page is just a name with a screenshot. Can we please have some more information about the breakthrough in question?

Let me describe my interpretation of the program. You are presented with a "marble" cube which lets you chisel the shape you want. The problem I see with this application is that you can't even do something as basic as set the depth of the cuts you're taking. It's just removing everything in a straight line based on the camera angle.

Unfortunately, it's just free-hand sketches plus boolean "and" operations. I don't see the breakthrough.

I’m a bit hesitant to post a “what about X?” so read this knowing that I’m fully in support of new open source CAD projects.

It seems to me there are no options for open source CAM, is this something you’re interested in? I can use a variety of CAD but when it comes to producing the tool paths and G code, I have to import into something like F360 which is unfortunate.