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hannobraun / fornjot

Early-stage b-rep CAD kernel, written in the Rust programming language.
https://www.fornjot.app/
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Add comparison with `truck` to the README? #2476

Closed hoijui closed 3 weeks ago

hoijui commented 3 weeks ago

As I understand, fornjot was a CAD software in the past, and is now only a CAD kernel. This puts it in he same box like truck, both being CAD kernels written in rust. Everyone that has a need for that, will have to decide between (at least) the two, so it would be nice to have a comparison.

hannobraun commented 3 weeks ago

Hey, @hoijui, thank you for opening this issue!

I think that's a reasonable ask, but neither do I feel qualified to write about Truck (due to not having used it, and potential bias), nor is such a comparison something I'd want to maintain over time.

If there was a credible-looking third-party comparison anywhere, I'd be happy to link to that!

If you (or anybody stumbling over this) is wondering about whether to use one or the other, I'd like to note that Truck looks much more advanced than Fornjot does. The geometry Fornjot can currently support is very limited. Check out the example models in this repository.

I also just remembered, I've written a comparison about the two projects (not the CAD kernels they produce) some time ago: https://github.com/tlalexander/open-cad-foundation/discussions/7#discussioncomment-7679818