Free, open, offline parametric CAD. For everyone, everywhere, forever.

Read the vision See the roadmap

  • Offline

    Runs fully offline. The only network call is the update check, and only when you ask for it.

  • No accounts, no telemetry, no paid tier

    Nothing to sign up for, nothing sent home, no locked feature. It asks nothing of anyone.

  • Everything is scriptable

    Everything the UI does, a Python script can do. The command set is the same for both.

Parametric CAD is the shortest path between thinking of a part and making it, and that path is closed to most people today. I am building YontaCAD to change that: free, offline, without accounts, without telemetry; your files stay with you, it sends nothing to anyone unless you ask it to, and it stays free forever. There is no company, foundation or institution behind it; I cover its costs myself, and it asks nothing of anyone. If one day a part drawn in YontaCAD is made in a workshop, on a kitchen table or in a dorm room, this work will have reached its purpose.

— Arif Kalem

Status

In development. The public repository and the download come after the camps on the roadmap.

Yonta comes from the Turkish verb yontmak: to carve a form out of raw material.