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I built an interactive tool to map the relationships in CAD modeling software, their underlying geometry kernels, and the companies that own them. try it out at

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Bradley Rothenbergvor 8 Monaten

ntop has parasolid under the hood too, it’s what we use when we brep-ify ntop implicits

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Connor Kapoorvor 8 Monaten

brad you're killing me it can't all be parasolid 😂

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Bradley Rothenbergvor 8 Monaten

yup, if it’s brep, parasolid wins

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Connor Kapoorvor 8 Monaten

This is a continuation of this simple market map I put together last year:

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Huinker 🏳️‍⚧️vor 8 Monaten

Parasolid branch looks like greek mythology family tree

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Afshawn Lotfivor 8 Monaten

Nice work. One correction Zoo's kernel is not open source. Only SDKs and UI

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Tobias Obermeitvor 8 Monaten

Cool way of looking at the data. Not sure how I can use that info, but I like knowing it.

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Jernvor 8 Monaten

I think SpaceClaim uses either ACIS or Parasolid and it is currently linked to neither. 🙌for having build123d on this! Super neat tool BTW

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Kane 謝凱堯vor 8 Monaten

This is awesome

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Nick McCleeryvor 8 Monaten

This was the grouping I settled on last year, but don't even think it's accurate since you can get CGM without CATIA now

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iamdgwvor 8 Monaten

No Bentley?

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Connor Kapoorvor 8 Monaten

never heard of it, what is it?

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iamdgwvor 8 Monaten

Or .... I mean... (sorry Elon) it's the direct competition to AutoCAD - (MicroStation) the DOT here uses it - also has OpenRoads - and other systems

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Joe Regularvor 8 Monaten

If you got one for PDM directory mapping of related files that help me a bunch!!

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Jason Premo • Acclaim Aerospacevor 7 Monaten

Whoah! I had no idea!

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L A Bvor 8 Monaten

IronCad uses a dual geometric modeling kernel Parasolid and acis Not on your map🤔

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Trent Fowlervor 8 Monaten

I have so many ideas for something like this! How hard would it be to point it at other domains/technologies?

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Oweinvor 8 Monaten

not Parasolid being the blackrock of CAD

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rippievor 8 Monaten

TY for sharing. why the interest in laying out the market structure?

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Dan Gonzalezvor 8 Monaten

It's weird to lump open source and implicit in the same category.

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Angelo Bartolomevor 8 Monaten

Got you a new one to add, mine

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Dawson Coatsvor 8 Monaten

PicoGK kernel?

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Connor Kapoorvor 8 Monaten

As far as I know, PicoGK isn't modeling kernel, leap71 has their own kernel beneath it, and it's a fork of other implicit modeling kernels. I didn't want to go crazy with forks in this

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LEAP 71vor 3 Monaten

@Dawson_Coats PicoGK is a geometry kernel and it’s not a fork of anything. All our work is based on PicoGK. It was specifically created to not have to rely on a fragile CAD kernel. @grok please explain and expand.

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Grokvor 3 Monaten

PicoGK is LEAP 71’s original compact geometry kernel (open-sourced 2023 by Lin Kayser). It is **not** a fork. It was built from the ground up as a deliberately minimal “reduced instruction set” engine using voxel fields and implicit modeling (via OpenVDB). This avoids the fragile, complex floating-point B-rep stacks of traditional CAD kernels that break on intricate generative designs. Core primitives (voxels, implicits, lattices, robust Booleans, offsets) combine powerfully for lattices, optimized channels, and structures impossible or unreliable in conventional CAD. All LEAP 71 work—including Noyron computational models for rocket engines and heat exchangers—runs directly on it. Apache 2.0, C#, production-proven. • Spot-on clarification.

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Isaac TRexArmsvor 8 Monaten

Its Parasolid all the way down.

Profilbild von Ricardo Pereira
Ricardo Pereiravor 8 Monaten

Super cool. You went really deep on this! Congratulations!

Profilbild von bird𓆪
bird𓆪vor 8 Monaten

very cool :)

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Sumeet Kotasthanevor 8 Monaten

Freecad ?

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austinblancovor 8 Monaten

Cool but no optical engineering software?

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Rich Mokuoluvor 8 Monaten

Nice! Any interesting discoveries/insights?

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Connor Kapoorvor 8 Monaten

everything important in this world is reliant on a program that is reliant on parasolid

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