{"slug": "plasticity", "name": "Plasticity", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 7, "warners": 0, "score": 4.079, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2025-11-18", "latest": "2026-07-20", "why": "take a look at https://Plasticity.xyz. It's not open-source, but it's got a small, highly dedicated team behind it.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "take a look at https://Plasticity.xyz. It's not open-source, but it's got a small, highly dedicated team behind it.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "plasticity.xyz", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.plasticity.xyz", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Plasticity"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 760144128, "item_id": 47509008, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509008", "by": "omnimus", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Try https://www.plasticity.xyz/", "excerpt": "Try https://www.plasticity.xyz/", "context": "", "use_case": "3D CAD modeling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"}, {"id": 735623504, "item_id": 45976469, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976469", "by": "Reviving1514", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Give plasticity a shot - not FOSS but pretty decent CAD and works on linux", "excerpt": "Give plasticity a shot - not FOSS but pretty decent CAD and works on linux", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender 5.0"}, {"id": 735585920, "item_id": 45974120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974120", "by": "gcr", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "take a look at https://Plasticity.xyz. It's not open-source, but it's got a small, highly dedicated team behind it.", "excerpt": "agreed! take a look at https://Plasticity.xyz. It's not open-source, but it's got a small, highly dedicated team behind it. It's built on Solidworks' kernel, so it's quite robust. Also take a look at solverspace, caligula, FreeCAD, ...", "context": "", "use_case": "3D CAD", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender 5.0"}, {"id": 735575696, "item_id": 45973481, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973481", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Plasticity to model for 3D printing", "excerpt": "I use Plasticity to model for 3D printing. Having to worry about polygons in Blender is really annoying.", "context": "", "use_case": "3D modeling for printing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender 5.0"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "summarity", "context": "former Blender teacher, product visualization", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976426", "date": "2026-07-20"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["cad modeling", "viewing cad models in browser", "3d cad modeling", "3d cad", "3d modeling for printing"], "compared": [{"slug": "blender", "name": "Blender", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972519", "title": "Blender 5.0", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911021", "title": "Blender 5.2 LTS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555", "title": "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475417", "title": "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786196", "title": "Parametric CAD in Rust", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 3}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 783622817, "item_id": 48976426, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976426", "by": "summarity", "date": "2026-07-20", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "in any case I own and use both", "excerpt": "To answer the question at the top, yes there are countless suites that are instantly resumable even after months away. I used to teach Blender (v3) and I think I could find my way around but the overhead isn\u2019t worth it. I\u2019m also though in a privileged position to be able to afford more, smaller commercial tools. CAD: MoI (cool kids nowadays use Plasticity, but that is taking on similar feature creep - in any case I o", "context": "former Blender teacher, product visualization", "use_case": "CAD modeling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender 5.2 LTS"}, {"id": 768676752, "item_id": 48042297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042297", "by": "nkallen", "date": "2026-05-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Here is the model viewable in a web browser, for anyone interested", "excerpt": "Here is the model viewable in a web browser, for anyone interested https://share.plasticity.xyz/r/BDt8nFGQYVsdhi-v5SHSOn6jtBQUVYmGBZGhq56kk10", "context": "", "use_case": "Viewing CAD models in browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"}, {"id": 760144128, "item_id": 47509008, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509008", "by": "omnimus", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Try https://www.plasticity.xyz/", "excerpt": "Try https://www.plasticity.xyz/", "context": "", "use_case": "3D CAD modeling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"}, {"id": 748663984, "item_id": 46791499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791499", "by": "dgently7", "date": "2026-01-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "look at \"plasticity\" an app targeted at \"modeling\" but uses a cad engine", "excerpt": "my personal distinction I use is about measurements. while you may model to a specific scale for use in 3d gfx (game by engine/animation/vfx) you cross over from \"modeling\" to \"cad\" as soon as you are creating geometry with specific real world measurements. (probably for manufacturing or engineering reasons bc thats when it matters most) like I can model a table that is the right size and looks like it will not tip o", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Parametric CAD in Rust"}, {"id": 735623504, "item_id": 45976469, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976469", "by": "Reviving1514", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Give plasticity a shot - not FOSS but pretty decent CAD and works on linux", "excerpt": "Give plasticity a shot - not FOSS but pretty decent CAD and works on linux", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender 5.0"}, {"id": 735585920, "item_id": 45974120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974120", "by": "gcr", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "take a look at https://Plasticity.xyz. It's not open-source, but it's got a small, highly dedicated team behind it.", "excerpt": "agreed! take a look at https://Plasticity.xyz. It's not open-source, but it's got a small, highly dedicated team behind it. It's built on Solidworks' kernel, so it's quite robust. Also take a look at solverspace, caligula, FreeCAD, ...", "context": "", "use_case": "3D CAD", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender 5.0"}, {"id": 735575696, "item_id": 45973481, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973481", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Plasticity to model for 3D printing", "excerpt": "I use Plasticity to model for 3D printing. Having to worry about polygons in Blender is really annoying.", "context": "", "use_case": "3D modeling for printing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender 5.0"}]}