https://github.com/GilesBathgate/RapCAD

Rapid prototyping CAD IDE for RepRap and RepStrap 3D printing machines.
https://github.com/GilesBathgate/RapCAD

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Rapid prototyping CAD IDE for RepRap and RepStrap 3D printing machines.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/GilesBathgate/RapCAD
• Owner: GilesBathgate
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2011-05-07T07:37:37.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-11-16T22:43:33.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-11-17T00:19:04.747Z (9 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://rapcad.org
• Size: 6.54 MB
• Stars: 169
• Watchers: 18
• Forks: 26
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.asciidoc
  • License: COPYING

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README

          
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Introduction

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RapCAD is a Rapid prototyping CAD IDE for RepRap and RepStrap 3D printing

machines. RapCAD is published under the GPLv3 licence.

Unlike most CAD packages RapCAD is not GUI based. One of the things that you

often do when using a traditional CAD package, for example, is to create

temporary construction lines that you either delete or put on a layer that is

never used or seen. From another person's perspective, it's not always obvious

how you arrived at your final design. In the software industry, the vital role

of version control is that it allows the transcript of decisions made during

the design process to be recorded. RapCAD solves this problem by allowing

designs to be described with a modular scene description language. This not

only provides compatibility with traditional text-based source control

management software, but it also allows for the creation of re-usable component

modules that can be distributed as a design library.

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Installation

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Windows

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* Download the https://github.com/GilesBathgate/RapCAD/releases/[latest installer].

* Double click the installer exe and follow the on-screen instructions.

Ubuntu

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* Supports: Bionic, Focal, Groovy

* Simply run the following commands in a terminal.

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gilesbathgate/rapcad

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install rapcad

Mac OS X

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* Download the https://github.com/GilesBathgate/RapCAD/releases/[latest disk image].

* Open the image and run the rapcad package.

Building

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If you wish to build from source, please read link:./doc/compiling.asciidoc[doc/compiling.asciidoc]