solvespace(1)

✨ NAME ✨

solvespace — a parametric 3d CAD program 🎀 (yes bestie, it literally does parametric 3d CAD, that's the whole vibe)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea, this thing does so much and I need you to be seated for it 🫶

• modeling 3d parts — you draw with extrudes, revolves, helix creation, and Boolean (union / difference / intersection) operations 🔥 like, actual shapes, popping off in three dimensions
• modeling 2d parts — draw the part as a single section, and export DXF, PDF, SVG; then use 3d assembly to verify fit 👑 (the fit check is the moment of truth fr fr)
• 3d-printed parts — export the STL or other triangle mesh that most 3d printers expect 🖨️✨ your printer is gonna eat
• preparing CAM data — export 2d vector art for a waterjet machine or laser cutter; or generate STEP or STL, for import into third-party CAM software for machining 💅 very "I have a workshop and I know how to use it" of you
• mechanism design — use the constraint solver to simulate planar or spatial linkages, with pin, ball, or slide joints 🦋 lowkey the coolest one, not gonna lie
• plane and solid geometry — replace hand-solved trigonometry and spreadsheets with a live dimensioned drawing 😭 no more spreadsheet trauma, we are HEALED

vibe check: if you ever caught yourself doing trig by hand at 2am, this program is your main character moment. 🧚

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🌸 this was the solvespace(1) manual, August 15, 2016 edition — literally iconic, periodt. 💖✨