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Engineering and product notes from the solidSF team.

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2026-05-20 / Guide
Browser CAD: The Complete Guide for 2026
What browser CAD actually is, why WebGPU and WebAssembly finally made it real, what it can and can't do today, and how to evaluate it against desktop CAD and cloud-streamed VDI.
2026-05-20 / Engineering
Why We Wrote a CAD Kernel in Rust
A founder-written technical post on the state of CAD kernels, why we did not build on OpenCascade or Parasolid, our architecture, the boolean ops problem, and what we plan to open-source.

About the author

Andy Norris is the founder and CEO of solidSF. He is a licensed Professional Engineer with 18 years of CAD experience and writes most of what appears here. solidSF is based in San Francisco. If you want to reach the team about a post, email press@solidsf.com.

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