CADCraft is an open-source 2D drafting app written in Rust, running here in a browser tab. Draw with LINE, OFFSET and TRIM, snap to endpoints and centres, dimension, hatch and lay out sheets, and open or save DXF files. Your drawings stay on your computer.
Most online CAD viewers only show a file. CADCraft compiles a full drafting engine to WebAssembly, so you can draw and edit too. Start typing at the command line and AutoComplete finds the command.
Type L, click two points, type @5<45, press Enter. Prompts offer clickable [Keywords], AutoComplete and aliases; Enter, Space or a right-click repeats the last command. Object snaps, polar tracking, ortho, direct distance entry, window and crossing selection and grips behave the way drafting habit expects.
Screenshot from the CADCraft projectLINE, PLINE, CIRCLE, ARC, RECTANG, POLYGON, ELLIPSE, SPLINE and text; MOVE, COPY, ROTATE, OFFSET, TRIM, EXTEND, FILLET, CHAMFER, ARRAY and the rest of the Modify set. Every DIM command with dimension styles, associative dimensions that follow the geometry, multileaders, tables, hatches and blocks with attributes.
Screenshot from the CADCraft project
A Layers palette and Layer Properties Manager with on/off, freeze, lock, colour and linetype; paper-space layouts with scaled viewports; geometric and dimensional constraints that re-solve after every edit. Open DXF drawings from R12 to 2018 and save them back as DXF.
Screenshot from the CADCraft projectOpen the AI drafting panel next to the drawing, paste an OpenAI, Google Gemini or OpenRouter key, and describe a plate, flange, gasket or floor plan with its sizes. The panel turns the model’s answer into a DXF that opens in CADCraft. It also explains drawings: layers, hole sizes, dimensions, text.
Requests go from your browser to the provider. We never see your key, your drawings or the answers, and we add no markup.
How the AI DXF generator worksThe editor is CADCraft’s own web build, byte for byte. Around it we add a few things the bare build doesn’t have.
Each new CADCraft release is checked against its published SHA-256 checksum and deployed here. You are on v0.5.0.
Text-to-DXF drawings and answers about your DXF files from OpenAI, Gemini or OpenRouter models, straight from the browser.
The browser build has no autosave. Once you have drawn something, the page asks before you close or leave it.
No account, no watermark, no upload. Close the tab and nothing of yours is left on a server.
line at the command line. Files up to 256 MB open in the browser.CADCraft is pre-alpha. Expect rough edges, keep the original file, and save before closing the tab: the browser version has no autosave.
Yes. CADCraft is free and open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0), with no account and no subscription, and this site adds no limits of its own. The optional AI drafting panel uses your own AI provider key, so any AI usage is billed by your provider, not by us.
No. CADCraft runs in your browser with WebAssembly. Files open from your disk and save back as downloads; nothing reaches our servers. The only exception is the AI panel, which sends your request, or a text summary of the drawing you pick, straight to the AI provider whose key you entered.
Not in the browser. The web build reads and writes DXF only (DXF R12 to 2018 opens, saves are DXF R2000). The CADCraft desktop app opens DWG files from R13 to 2018 and saves DWG, through the open-source acadrust library; its developers say DWG support is still partial, so keep your originals.
No. The browser version has no autosave, so save with File › Save (Ctrl/⌘+S), which downloads a DXF, before you close the tab. Once you have worked in the editor, this page asks before you leave it.
Not from the Print dialog in the browser build yet. Type saveas {"path":"plan.pdf"} at the command line instead: it downloads a PDF of model space fitted to the drawing. The same works for .svg and .png. Plotting layouts with page setups works in the desktop app.
Not yet, and its developers say so. CADCraft is an independent, clean-room project at the pre-alpha stage. By their own count, about half of the menu items of AutoCAD for Mac have a working command, and they estimate it is about 38% ready for real work. It is a good fit for viewing and editing DXF files, 2D drafting practice and quick drawings.
A current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on a desktop or laptop. CADCraft draws with WebGPU where the browser has it and falls back to WebGL2 on its own. If drawing misbehaves, open the editor with ?webgl at the end of the address to force WebGL2.
English and Ukrainian. Choose Edit › Interface Language; Auto follows your browser’s language. The choice is remembered in your browser.
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