Improving CI and Benchmarking for Manifold
Contributor: AnshulPatil2005
This project improves Manifold’s CI and benchmarking by adding missing determinism, sanitizer, and performance regression checks. I will implement a...
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- Total projects
- 81
- Years participating
- 11
- Most recent
- 2026
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Empowering OpenSCAD with Local Agentic AI Assistance
Contributor: Bidyendu
This proposal introduces an optional, privacy-first AI assistant for OpenSCAD to flatten the learning curve of SCAD syntax and geometric...
Geometry Verification and Validation GUI in Qt
Contributor: Kanchan Borole
This project focuses on improving the Geometry Verification and Validation (V&V) GUI in Qt for the Arbalest application in BRL-CAD. Currently, the...
Saikei Civil — Native IFC Roadway Design for Bonsai BIM
Contributor: MYoder
Saikei Civil is an initiative to bring professional roadway design capability to Bonsai/IfcOpenShell. The goal is to add tools, features, and...
BRL-CAD Agentic MCP Interface
Contributor: RaghavSharma0125
BRL-CAD is a battle-tested Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) engine, but it currently lacks a native, bidirectional interface for headless command...
C++Python
IfcOpenShell C API, Improved WASM builds, and migration of high-level APIs from Python
Contributor: Sayan Jyoti Das
The IfcOpenShell library lacks a stable C API, which currently limits interoperability with other programming languages and makes its higher-level...
C++Python
OpenSCAD to JS with ManifoldCAD
Contributor: swaparup
This project aims to build a reliable OpenSCAD to JavaScript compiler using ManifoldCAD, making it possible to run existing OpenSCAD code in a modern...
BRLCAD Python bindings
Contributor: Waleed05
I plan to make BRL-CAD python bindings. Basically my goal is to make a Python interface for BRL-CAD using MOOSE as the core modeling backend, with a...
C++Python
Improving the k-File to BRL-CAD Converter & proposal for BRL-CAD database to k-File converter.
Contributor: Andrea Braghin
This project is intended to improve the interoperability between LS‑DYNA and BRL‑CAD by enhancing the existing k‑g converter and by implementing a...
Developing a MOOSE-based Console for arbalest: a first step to merge arbalest and qged
Contributor: Lorenzo Pegorari
This project sets out to take the initial step in merging BRL-CAD's two in-development GUIs: "arbalest" and "qged". The primary objective is to...
Web Application to create and check BIM project exchange requirements for IfcOpenShell
Contributor: Sayan Jyoti Das
Information Delivery Specification (IDS) is a standard for defining information requirements in a computer interpretable form, written in XML....
BRL-CAD OGV Migration
Contributor: Simarjot_Singh
This project proposes a complete rewrite of BRL-CAD's existing OGV, which currently uses Meteor.js, an older framework no longer actively maintained....
Development and Build Support for Native Windows
Contributor: Sparsh N
OpenSCAD currently supports Windows development/build setup through 2 key ways: MSYS2 and MXE. A MSVC based build has instructions circa 2012, but...
Add polygon fillet algorithm for manifold
Contributor: Trzeth
While filleting is a common and essential modeling technique, its implementation in existing mesh processing libraries is often limited or absent....
Optimizing convex hull algorithm
Contributor: Kushal_Shah
To optimize the current convex hull algorithm to improve robustness and efficiency. The current implementation (quickhull) has cases which it cannot...
Rendering with Neural Intersection Functions
Contributor: Jin Ke
Ray tracing involves computationally expensive calculations and geometry with varying degrees of complexity. According to Fujieda et. al[1], a novel...
Develop further the new GUI for BRL-CAD!
Contributor: ViditJain04
The proposal aims to enhance the BRL-CAD experience through a new GUI. Leveraging my software development background, including projects like Website...
C++
Neural rendering
Contributor: Matteo Balice
The proposed project aims to further investigate the potential of neural networks in accelerating the process of ray tracing for 3D rendering....
OpenSCAD Library Manager
Contributor: Mohammad Abdussalam
Over the years, a vast collection of OpenSCAD libraries has been developed by the community. These libraries provide pre-written functions and...
Implementation of a g-k converter and Improvements to the existing k-g converter
Contributor: Ali Haydar
The ability to convert BRL-CAD database files to other formats is an important feature, especially being able to convert the BRL-CAD geometry into a...
Web-based UI integration with Blender
Contributor: Ziad Ibrahim
This project aims to overcome Blender's limitations with spreadsheets and other functionalities. The goal is to have a web interface running...
IfcOpenShell: IfcTester WebApp
Contributor: Kshitij Roodkee
The proposal outlines the development of an enhanced web application, IfcTester, for managing Building Information Modeling (BIM) project exchange...
Scripts to generate light simulation input files from 3D models (Issue #85)
Contributor: chiragsingh1711
1. Python scripts for IFC to OBJ conversion and text file generation: Objective: Develop Python scripts that take an input 3D IFC model and generate...
Python
VDB Rendering for BRL-CAD
Contributor: Caio Brito
VDB is a volumetric, sparse and hierarchical data structure which can be used for volumetric rendering, simulation and computational solid geometry...
NURBS Editing Support in BRL-CAD
Contributor: Gregory Li
NURBS is a basic function for BRL-CAD and BRL-CAD has support for some functions based on brep using openNURBS library. Beyond basic operations such...
OpenSCAD OpenGL Modernization
Contributor: Joseph Black
The project would undertake the necessary code restructuring to facilitate OpenSCAD's transition to rendering with modern OpenGL. An important early...
opengl
Interface to interact with Brickschema
Contributor: Riley Wong
While Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)—the leading international standard for exchanging building data—offers generic descriptions for smart...
Updating Appleseed: Python 3 and Dependencies
Contributor: Sai Abhiram Alluri
The goal of this project is to update the Python codebase for Appleseed from Python 2 to Python 3 and update the PyQT code and GUI to PyQT6. This...
C++Python
OpenSCAD 3D Viewport Graphical Enhancements
Contributor: Joseph Black
The project would allow the 3D viewport to support custom shaders for the render mode (F6). This requires retrieving the necessary uniforms and other...
BRL-CAD Project Site
Contributor: Divyanshu Garg
This project is being proposed to redesign and update the official site for BRL-CAD, which will add more details to the site related to the...
New BRL-CAD GUI
Contributor: Himanshu Sekhar Nayak
Arbalest, a modern geometry editor for BRL-CAD is an improvement over the existing editors MGED and Archer which is developed during the '80s and...
C++
Test-Driven Development for BRL-CAD NURBS/Brep Boolean Operation
Contributor: Gregory Li
Currently, BRL-CAD has implemented a series of NURBS and Brep operations, and in some cases it works well. But there are many cases to be tested,...
Create a new KiCad importer for LTSpice.
Contributor: Chetan Subhash Shinde
KiCad is an open-source EDA software. Which is used globally. It is hence important to ensure that KiCad is compatible with all other EDA software...
LibreCAD 3 automatic releases
Contributor: Cristian Bezerdic Stoica
Right now to install and use LibreCAD3 on your computer you have to get all the dependencies and build it yourself from the source code in the Github...
Create visual programming nodes for generating BIM data with IfcSverchok
Contributor: Martina Jakubowska
Industry Foundation Class (IFC) is the leading open data format for the built environment, based on the ISO 16739-1:2018 standard. It’s the...
Pythonscripting
Adding the Ability To BCF Libraries to connect to BCF API's.
Contributor: Singh Prabhat
Integrating existing BCF libraries with the API's so as to perform reading and writing of files .
Open Geometry Viewer(OGV)
Contributor: Amanjot Singh
Open Geometry Viewer is a web-based application to view 3D CAD models on browsers. Users are able to host the model online and comment on others...
Generator for offline documentation
Contributor: Abhishek Rawat
The current documentation for OpenSCAD is available online at WikiBooks for easy access, which also facilitates user edits for improvisation of the...
Automate Reinforcement Process of Slab and Footing in FreeCAD
Contributor: Shiv Charan Sharma
This project is to automate reinforcement process of slab and footing by using the Reinforcement Workbench in FreeCAD.
Add IDS validation with BCF output to IfcOpenShell
Contributor: Artur Tomczak
BuildingSMART organisation is currently working and about to publish new IDS (Information Delivery Specifications) which in simple terms is a...
Implement UNDO and transactional changes
Contributor: Vikram Atreyapurapu
I would like to implement the undo function into libged. This will be a significant feature addition to BRL-CAD, giving designers the option to...
New Geometry Editor
Contributor: Sadeep Weerasinghe
BRL-CAD has 2 geometry editor applications, MGED and Archer. They have been created a long time ago with the technology available at that time. The...
OpenScad GUI & Text Editor’s Interactivity Enhancements
Contributor: Hrishabh Sharma
OpenSCAD is a FOSS which belongs to the CAD software category. It allow users to describe the CAD model using codes/scripts, and using those scripts;...
LibreCAD v3 GUI Revamp
Contributor: Akhil Nair
LibreCAD 3 is the new version of LibreCAD currently under development. LibreCAD 3 uses Lua for GUI initialization, management, plugins and for the...
C++
OpenCL GPGPU Raytracing
Contributor: Rishabh Suthar
This project is to introduce a GPGPU pipeline into BRL-CAD using OpenCL for existing primitives and parallelize them for faster computation.
opencl
FEM Examples Extension in FreeCAD
Contributor: Sudhanshu Dubey
This project is to expand the list of Finite Element Method (FEM) examples currently present in FreeCAD by adding more examples. The target will be...
Persistent Caching for OpenSCAD
Contributor: Bharath Chandra
OpenSCAD is an open-source 3D modeling software. It uses two main modeling techniques namely, Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) and extrusion of 2D...
opengl
Extended functionality of Rebar Addon
Contributor: Suraj Dadral
This Project is to create rebar shape cut list, bar bending schedule, export to BVBS format and automatic drawing of a structural element after...
A better IPython and Jupyter Notebook Integration for FreeCAD
Contributor: Marcus Ding
Currently, FreeCAD's IPython and Jupyter Notebook integration can only provide visualization by running the entire FreeCAD GUI alongside the...
Python
FreeCAD Configuration Management Proposal
Contributor: Zach
FreeCAD is a powerful tool with worldwide usage but suffers a shortage of developers. This proposal aims to encourage new developers to adopt FreeCAD...
Imporve DXF Import and Export Proposal
Contributor: Xuwei Tan
This is my proposal to the project, improve DXF import and export for OpenSCAD. It includes a breif introduction of myself, project description and...
Implement more annotation support: labels, notes, and dimensions #28
Contributor: Ali Haydar
The project will aim to enhance the existing annotation capability and add another type of annotations like dimensions , labels and single or...
FEM Workbench Testing
Contributor: Markus Hovorka
Improve the quality and reliability of the FEM Workbench of FreeCAD by introducing a extensive and consistent testing approach and developing a test...
Improvement of OpenSCAD Text-Editor Features
Contributor: Romit Kumar
As modern OpenSCAD usage has advanced, it now makes more extensive use of libraries consisting of many files, and the editor features have not kept...
LibreCAD 3 OpenGL Rendering
Contributor: Kartik Kumar
LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. It allows industrial designers and graphics enthusiast to create CAD...
C++opengl
BCF Support in BIM WB - FreeCAD
Contributor: Patrick Podest
Collaboration is ingrained into human nature, without it we, as a species, wouldn’t be able to build astonishing buildings like we have today....
Automate Reinforcement Process in FreeCAD
Contributor: Suraj
This project is to automate Reinforcement process by using Rebar Addon in FreeCAD. The idea is to create UI on top of the current implementation to...
Slic3r - Rotating Face to Bottom
Contributor: Benjamin Landers
The primary goal of this project would be to implement a solution to issue #3047. This issue is basically about implementing a way for users to...
Improving raytracing performance by improving libbu
Contributor: caen
Improve parts of BRL-CAD's raytracer by removing unnecessary work and using better-suited data structures.
Python BRL-CAD
Contributor: Jaipal Singh
Project aims to wrap BRL-CAD geometry primitives in python using ctypesgen and extending support to use python BRL-CAD on multiple operating systems....
Python
OpenCL GPGPU Raytracing
Contributor: Sreyansh Kumhar Jain
BRL-CAD objects are made from about two dozen primitives, ray-tracing of which can be quickly realised in a GPU owing to its parallel architecture....
opencl
Overlap Tool - Cross platform compatibility
Contributor: Saran Narayan
The project aims to bring cross platform compatibility to the existing overlap tool which currently uses a shell script that works only for Linux. By...
FreeCAD Configuration Management Project
Contributor: Kurt Kremitzki
FreeCAD is a general purpose 3D computer-aided engineering & design program available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and as a result it has a huge...
Add exec option to search
Contributor: pronaip
BRL-CAD's MGED search needs an -exec option - like the find command in UNIX - but that would mean low level library functions accessing the...
GPU Boolean Evaluation for CSG Ray-Tracing
Contributor: Marco Domingues
In BRL-CAD, some work has been done in order to optimize the ray-tracing process, with ray-intersection calculations implemented in OpenCL for...
opencl
Annotations: Implement support for 2D annotations, labels that can be added to geometry
Contributor: gabbar1947
The aim of the project is to enhance the representation of the wire frame views by adding annotations to the sketch.
Elmer-Integration
Contributor: Markus Hovorka
This proposal targets the “Elmer-Integration” project outlined in the “Google Summer of Code” article on the wiki...
Rebar Addon for FreeCAD
Contributor: Amritpal Singh
The current rebar functionality in FreeCAD is very limited by its UI and creating a reinforcement system using it is quite tedious. Currently, the...
Implement 3MF read/write
Contributor: Ahmed Samir Hamed-1
Project Goal: Implement support for the 3MF file format in Slic3r and allow conversion into (AMF, OBJ, STL). 3MF is generally smaller than other...
LibreCAD 3 plugins system
Contributor: Florian Roméo
This proposal is made to improve the current LibreCAD 3 plugin system, by adding new features like custom entities or read and write files, to allow...
Part Design Workbench Refinement
Contributor: Kurt Kremitzki
By adding complete functional test coverage to Part Design, bugs can be systematically eliminated. The Attachment Editor and Boolean Operation tools...
Online Geometry Viewer Update
Contributor: Oleksandr Dubenko
This project aims to improve Online Geometry Viewer in different ways: UI update, code quality and improved model importing.
LibreCAD 3 Scriptable User Interface Creation
Contributor: Feragon
This project will add to LibreCAD 3 an user interface allowing end-users to create and manipulate elements in the document without having to write a...
The FreeCAD Plugin Installer
Contributor: mandeep7
My main idea is to implement a plugin manager for FreeCAD that will be used to install/remove/update plugins and other unofficial...
Online Geometry Viewer
Contributor: gjeet
OGV has the ambition to become something of an Instagram for 3D models. It includes features like profiles, likes, comments, followers. But the code...
Plate Mode NURBS raytracing
Contributor: boj
In Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) system, the modeling process is usually represented as boolean operations of some basic primitives such as...
Automatic Polygonal Mesh Healing
Contributor: Rakshika Bagavathy
The aim is to provide features that will be useful in automatic polygonal healing of a mesh, which BRL-CAD essentially represents as a bag of...
LibreCAD V3 Beziers and File I/O Support
Contributor: Gaganjyot
LibreCAD V3 Beziers and File I/O Support project involves further development of the LibreCAD v3 Kernel and LibreCAD Software itself. LibreCAD at the...
BRL-CAD Web Infrastructure Update
Contributor: sniok
This project aims to update current web infrastructure of BRL-CAD organisation. Specifically: creating new main web site at ‘brlcad.org’ as a central...
GPGPU Support for Boolean Evaluation Used in Ray Tracing
Contributor: ParamHanji
BRL-CAD uses Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) to create complex objects by combining two or more primitives, with the help of Boolean operators. I...
User Interface for Customizing Models
Contributor: Amarjeet Kapoor
This project intends to define user interface to Customize Model interactively instead of modifying them manually. It will make the user able to...