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title: "Alongside the fork, the project ships deterministic viewers for KiCad designs and STEP files, a standard format for exchanging 3D CAD models."
description: "The Bend project says it has shipped deterministic viewers for KiCad designs and STEP files."
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# Alongside the fork, the project ships deterministic viewers for KiCad designs and STEP files, a standard format for exchanging 3D CAD models.

## Retrieval answer

The Bend project says it has shipped deterministic viewers for KiCad designs and STEP files.

The Bend project says it has shipped deterministic viewers for KiCad designs and STEP files. KiCad is used for electronic design, while STEP is a standard format for exchanging 3D CAD models.

The viewers are written in Bend, described in the repository material as a massively parallel functional language. Their stated design goal is to preserve object identity across repeated runs: a reference to a particular object should continue to resolve to the same geometry. The supplied example is a reference to pad 14.

The material describes viewers rather than a text-to-CAD generator or a general-purpose CAD authoring tool. It does not establish a release version or date for the viewers, performance characteristics, supported KiCad or STEP variants, licence terms, installation requirements, or production-readiness claims.

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