cycleCAD
The facts below are what the maker publishes about cycleCAD, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From cycleCAD's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free · open source · MIT license · browser app · no account required |
The facts
Each one read from cycleCAD's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI Copilot
- The Copilot turns natural-language prompts into geometry, with offline templates for common parts and plans of up to 20 operations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- AI providers
- The page names Gemini 2.0 Flash, Groq Llama 3.3 70B, and Claude Sonnet 4.6 as language-model options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Assemblies
- The assembly workspace supports seven joint types, mate constraints, explode and collapse, interference checks, contact sets, and motion studies.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Assembly design
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Cloud collaboration
- Nochecked 19 Sep 2026
- Current limitations
- The maker says engineering analysis is in progress and lists real-time collaboration, cloud storage, enterprise SSO, and self-hosted enterprise builds as later roadmap items.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File import and export
- STEP, IGES, GLB; Inventor IAM and IPJ importchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Integrations and API
- Its 55-command JSON-RPC Agent API can be scripted from the browser console, MCP server, REST API, or CLI.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Inventor import
- The assembly workspace lists import support for Inventor .iam and .ipj files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Kernel and formats
- cycleCAD uses OpenCascade.js for B-rep geometry and describes STEP, IGES, and GLB round-tripping through a converter server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Modeling method
- parametricchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- cycleCAD is a browser-based parametric 3D CAD modeller intended for designers, makers, and CNC shops.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security and account
- The maker says cycleCAD runs in the browser without installation or an account; the page does not state security certifications or compliance.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Sketching
- The sketch engine provides 13 tools, 12 constraint types, grid snapping, inferred constraints, and degree-of-freedom analysis.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Solid modelling
- The solid modeller lists 16 operations, including extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, fillet, chamfer, shell, pattern, hole, and boolean.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support and contact
- The product page provides the contact email [email protected].checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The suite page identifies Sachin Kumar as founder of cycleCAD, ExplodeView, and cycleCNC.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- web, APIchecked 19 Sep 2026
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