What is gplCAD?
gplCAD is an independent free / open source software project working on a software framework for developing Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools. The gplCAD framework is not constrained to a particular CAD domain or paradigm. Making it straightforward to change or extend the framework is the most fundamental design considerations of this project. Even though the primary focus of this project is to create a framework, a functional implementation ("gcd") will be written using the framework.
The target audience of gplCAD is the developers working on the project and hackers who are working on free/open source hardware/software projects. Individuals who are doing closed / proprietary work are not the target audience for gplCAD.
All the source code and data files associated with this project are licensed under the GPLv3.
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Current Status:
- The core requirements are well understood.
- General architecture of the framework has been decided upon.
- Functional prototypes have been written to validate the design.
- The native file format has been designed and hashed out.
- Dependencies and toolkits have been selected.
- Internal and external scripting languages have been selected.
- Nothing is available for download yet.
- From a public perspective, everything about this project is vaporware.
- Private parts of this website are under active development.