PartCAD

PartCAD is the first build system and package manager for CAD models and a framework for creating assemblies. It aims to complement Git with everything necessary to substitute commercial Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools.

PartCAD maintains information about mechanical parts and how they come together to form larger assemblies. The same parts are reused in multiple assemblies and multiple projects. And all of that is supercharged by the ultimate versioning and collaboration features of Git.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Background
  • Overview
• Installation
  • Command line tools
  • Python module
  • Visual Studio Code extension
  • Public PartCAD repository
• Tutorial
  • Command Line
  • VS Code Extension
• Design
  • Standards and conventions
  • The public repository
  • Tools
  • Libraries and frameworks
• Configuration
  • Packages
  • Sketches
  • Interfaces
  • Parts
  • Assemblies
• Assembly YAML
  • Introduction
  • Syntax
• Use Cases
  • Browse available models
  • Export models
  • Consume models
  • Produce models
  • Publish packages
• Additional Features
  • Generative AI
  • Security
• Troubleshooting
  • Command Line
  • PartCAD VSCode Extension
  • OCP CAD Viewer
• Implementation Details
  • Internal geometry representation
  • Parallelism