Vision

One free, open, offline application that holds full parametric engineering, integrated design-to-manufacture and form-and-motion tools, and goes beyond them.

Today these are three separate worlds, each with its own tools. An engineer models a part in one program, exports it to another for machining, exports again to a third for a rendering, and loses parametric intent at every step. YontaCAD's vision is a single document where the same object can be a precise parametric solid, a sculpted mesh and a NURBS surface at once; where the toolpath, the simulation and the rendered image are views of one model, not exports of it.

The three worlds we unify

• Engineering precision

  Parametric B-rep, sheet metal, weldments, assemblies with motion, drawings with GD&T, standard parts, tolerance analysis.

• Integrated workflow

  CAD, CAM, CAE, a PCB bridge, rendering and data management in one window, from hobbyist to professional.

• Form and motion

  Mesh sculpting, NURBS surfacing, procedural node-based modelling, animation, physics simulation, production rendering, total scriptability.

Where we go beyond

1. Hybrid kernel by design. B-rep solids, meshes and NURBS surfaces are peer objects in the same document and can reference each other parametrically.
2. Procedural everywhere. A node graph can drive solids, sketches, patterns and assemblies, not only meshes. Every feature tree is also a node graph.
3. Manufacturing-aware modelling. Design-for-manufacturing checks, cost estimation and toolpath preview run while you model.
4. AI as a native collaborator. Built on the public Python API, with user-chosen models, local or remote. No lock-in, no required cloud.
5. Simulation inside the model. Structural, thermal, electromagnetic and fluid solvers as first-class features, with results living on the geometry.
6. Git-native collaboration without a cloud. Diff, branch and merge of CAD documents with any git host or none.
7. Render and present from the same file. Physically based rendering, animation of assemblies, exploded views and turntables.
8. Open to the ground. Open file format, open API, open plugin ecosystem, open roadmap, open finances. LGPL forever.

What we refuse

• Accounts, telemetry, feature gating, "pro" editions, ads.
• Cloud as a requirement for anything.
• Closing the file format, ever.

How we get there

The vision is the destination; the roadmap is the road. We earn the right to each new world by finishing the previous one: engineering precision first, because a CAD that cannot make a correct part is not a CAD; integration second; form and motion third, when the kernel, the document model and the plugin API are strong enough to carry it.

Measure of success

Not downloads. The day a student in Lahore, a machine shop in Konya and an animator in Jakarta open the same file and each finds their tool inside it.