SplitCAD

Man you have been incredibly generous with what I suspect is an LLM chat. The OP types really strangely with some tell tale LLM writing structures and styles on a 3 day old account. Their link is just AI slop there’s nothing insightful here: https://github.com/yuanxun-yx/SplitCAD Be wary/careful if they reach out to you some way.

Most mechanical CAD tools (SolidWorks, Fusion, FreeCAD) still lock all modeling into opaque binary files. That makes it hard to track changes, collaborate with Git, or automate builds. I’ve written a proposal for an alternative paradigm: - GUI-first, like KiCad - visual modeling is the default - Text-based source files (YAML/JSON) — readable, diffable, Git-friendly - Separation of source and result - .step, .stl and previews are built artifacts - Parametric logic is explicit - slot width = tab width + clearance Works with Git, CI, or scripting — no more PDM lock-in The proposal is called SplitCAD, and it's just a concept for now — not a working tool. But I’d love to hear from anyone frustrated by the limitations of current mechanical CAD. GitHub: https://github.com/yuanxun-yx/SplitCAD