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MAJOR UPDATE! elalish Manifold added an it is SO FAST!

A project log for CaDoodle: Doodle in CAD!

A drag-and-drop CAD package that is an open source, local application alternative to TinkerCAD

kevin-harringtonKevin Harrington 04/30/2026 at 00:210 Comments

I have been so excited about the addition of Manifold i can not stop talking about it with folks!

The original algorithm i used in cadoodle was Big-O complexity of N^N^M. The new algorithm i am using is Big O of log(n^2)  I can not believe how fantastically better this has made CaDoodle!!

In previous versions, loading a large STL took a while, and group operations with it took a very long time, if they didn't crash outright.


 I just fused 2 copies of the Carbon 13 (a 20.3mb binary stl file)  in less than a second!!

In addition to this HUGE performance improvement  the export no longer needs to repair the mesh as it exits. The export is instant.

I also added 3mf support, so you can import and export 3mf files that are perfectly manifold at all times.  

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