Field noteOct 27, 20261 min read1 source

Alongside the fork, the project ships deterministic viewers for KiCad designs and STEP files, a standard format for exchanging 3D CAD models.

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

What changed: Bend adds deterministic viewers for KiCad designs and STEP 3D CAD files, complementing related CAD and physical-building agent projects in the archive.

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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  1. 1github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend
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