FreeCAD in the Browser

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magik.net FreeCAD in your browser Posted July 7, 2026 It started with a Hacker News thread: LibreCAD, the whole Qt desktop application, compiled to WebAssembly and running in a tab. magik shipped that, then OpenSCAD, and the pattern looked like a recipe — Qt for WebAssembly, JSPI, a static dependency stack, and an honest audit of whatever the app assumed about threads, filesystems and OpenGL. The obvious next question was how far it scales. So here is FreeCAD: parametric 3D CAD, sketch-con

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