# storytold/cadcraft

> An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of the AutoCAD workflow in pure Rust: command line, object snaps, layers, dimensions, hatches, blocks and DXF drawings. Runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly.

- Magnitude: 4.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 99 total · +26 stars measured 2026-10-07, 14:27–16:20 UTC, ≈ 34 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-07 · Last push: 2026-10-07
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/cadcraft

## Useful for

- Open and edit a DXF drawing with layers, dimensions and blocks
- Run CADCraft in the browser via WebAssembly without installing
- Generate a drawing from the CLI or through an MCP agent

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 14:27–16:20: 73 → 99 stars (+26). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +34 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 99 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #151.
- About 216 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 65
- Issues and pull requests: 1
- Watchers: 5
- Average over the last week: 34 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 16

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-10-07: 0, 0, 0, 26

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #151

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-07 16:37 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.