ehtick / cadl

CAD Library using threejs

2022 Update:

CADL is now pretty much dead. I may pick it back up at some point, but ideally as a self hostable 3D asset library.

Happy to collab if anyone wants to work on this with me. Just shoot me an email.

CADL - An open source CAD Library with 3D rendering

Designed and built to host a variety of CAD files at NoiseBridge Hackerspace, CADL is an open source tool for anyone who wants to visualize and share a variety of CAD projects.

Installing and running

This is a monorepo structure using the 'concurrently' package to manage a Node API and React front end.

Downloading and running:

Clone the Repo

Run npm i from parent level to install dependencies

Run npm run client to start the react front-end in dev mode (react dev server)

Run npm run server to start the server in dev mode (nodemon)

Run npm run dev to concurrently run the server and client

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Server

This is a node/express API connected to a MongoDB Database. This API relies on the AWS SDK to connect to an S3 Bucket for file storage

Running from top level:

npm run server

Dependencies

• "aws-sdk": "^2.520.0"
• "body-parser": "^1.19.0"
• "cors": "^2.8.5"
• "dotenv": "^8.1.0"
• "express": "^4.17.1"
• "mongoose": "^5.6.13"
• "multer": "^1.4.2"
• "multer-s3": "^2.9.0"
• "node-fetch": "^2.6.0"
• "nodemon": "^1.19.1"

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React UI

React front end with extensive THREE.JS implementation for rendering and editing CAD files.

Running from top level:

npm run client

Dependencies

• "bootstrap": "^4.3.1"
• "react": "^16.9.0"
• "react-bootstrap": "^1.0.0-beta.12"
• "react-dom": "^16.9.0"
• "react-router-dom": "^5.0.1"
• "react-scripts": "3.1.1"
• "three": "^0.107.0"

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API Documentation

Routes: GET all Projects: api/projects

GET all Designs: api/designs

Get all Categories: api/category

GET Specific Project: api/project/project_name

GET Specific Design: api/designs/design_name

GET Specific Category: api/category/category_name