This is the first time I manage to publish a side project in 12 years of web development (achievement unlocked!). I’ll be happy to read your thoughts about it. I’m interested in all types of feedback, and particularly I’d like to know if you’re aware of similar projects, as I haven’t found any.
This is about helping makers build things, wooden things for now, when they don’t want to invest time to use or learn CAD softwares.
I think the value will be tied to the size of the catalog, for now there is only two examples.
Stack wise this is React, React-three-fiber and Nuxt.js. Three.js may not be well adapted for CAD-like usecases but I wanted to quickly advance toward the MVP stage. I’m interested in knowing if there is other more relevant solutions you would think of (WebAssembly based options looked like premature optimization that may in fact not be that much more performant, and the WebGPU ecosystem seems too young).
They call these types of programs [1] “configurators” and they’re pretty fun to play with, great for clients to see what they want, especially with workshop drawings as output!
It also reminds me a little bit of [2] Matthias Wandel‘s “wooden gear generator”, which I think has been somewhat profitable.
Maybe it would be good to highlight the parts of the model that are changing with the parameters. I know it shows the dimension that’s changing, but it would be even clearer to highlight the model itself I think
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configurator
[2] https://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html