If you haven’t read the blog post, start there.
First and foremost: We are here to build a excellent CAD app. It will be open source, local first, and browser based. It will be simple, powerful, and beautiful.
Our longer-term goal is to build a thriving ecosystem of happy, productive users. We will eventually support CAM, FEA, and other CAD-adjacent tasks, but not until the CAD aspects are working well.
Our ambition is to change much of manufacturing by offering a better product. We have spent our careers trapped in walled gardens and we will break out!
In the past few weeks we have gathered 1000+ extremely smart, talented, motivated people in a Discord channel. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a serious impact on the world and we cannot waste it.
- Publish and maintain an elegant, powerful, parametric CAD app that is open source, local first, and browser based
- Build a community of users and a community of developers around this app so that it lives and breathes on its own, enabling an ecosystem of tools
Pragmatism: Aggressively cut scope in the name of delivering a product that works. Be the Google Docs to their Microsoft Word. Be the Obsidian to their Google Docs.
Obviousness: Anyone who has used parametric CAD should be able to walk up to CADmium and immediately start making parts without needing to watch tutorials. It must be streamlined, obvious, simple.
Modernness: Break from tradition when needed. Do not try to achieve cross-compatibility with any legacy modeling kernel. Build from scratch when required.
Loyalty To The User: Never pull the rug out from under our users. Never create a situation where future rug-pulling becomes possible. Make money by providing value to people who want to pay, not by holding their data hostage.
Beauty: Put care and attention into everything we publish. Focus on cohesion and visual clarity. Design matters.