21 posts tagged with "CAD"

In April 2026 Bitbybit travelled to Hannover, where Matas Ubarevičius delivered the presentation titled "The Browser Is the New CAD: From Code to Configurable Products" at Hannover Messe, the world's leading trade fair for the manufacturing industry. The talk was accepted by CAE-Forum for their curated presentation stage and featured in their newsletter. In this blog post he shares his experience from the event and explains why this discourse matters for the manufacturing industry today.

After nearly 100 releases in the 0.x.x range and a release candidate phase, Bitbybit v1.0.0 is officially here. This release brings our new CAD foundation, cloud infrastructure, and an expanded toolkit for developers.

This post outlines the major architectural changes and new capabilities available across our NPM packages, TypeScript SDK, Bitbybit Studio, and the Managed CAD Cloud.

Bitbybit is heading to Hannover Messe 2026. On April 24, founder Matas Ubarevičius will be giving a 30-minute presentation titled:

The Browser Is the New CAD: From Code to Configurable Products

Here is what the talk will cover and why it matters.

Bit by bit developers has always championed the democratization of CAD. The platform empowers users to run complex 3D algorithms directly in the browser - zero installation, zero friction. But as customer ambitions grow, so must the infrastructure.

Today marks the next evolution of the Bitbybit ecosystem: Managed Bitbybit CAD Cloud, powered by a RESTful API.

This is a fundamental expansion designed for enterprise B2B customers who demand more compute power, better IP protection, and scalable workflows than a browser-only environment can provide.

If you've ever tried to load, edit or create a complex STEP assembly in a web browser, you know how tricky it can be. STEP is the standard format engineers use to share CAD models, but browsers don't understand it natively. You usually need desktop software or a server to convert it.

With Bitbybit v1.0.0, that changes. You can now load STEP assemblies directly in the browser, explore their structure, extract individual parts, and export to web-friendly formats. Everything runs locally using Bitbybit OCCT WebAssembly.

After nearly 100 releases in the 0.x.x range, version 1.0.0 Release Candidate 0 is now available. This is a huge milestone for Bitbybit and represents extensive engineering work to set the project on a solid foundation for years to come.

We are excited to announce the release of our new open-source NPM package and runner for PlayCanvas, one of the most performant and feature-rich WebGL game engines available. The @bitbybit-dev/playcanvas package and PlayCanvas Runner continue our mission to make professional 3D CAD accessible across the entire web development ecosystem, now empowering PlayCanvas developers with industrial-grade geometric modeling capabilities.

In our ongoing mission to make powerful 3D design tools accessible to everyone, we're thrilled to announce a significant milestone: all components of Bitbybit.dev's Rete and Blockly visual programming editors are now translated into multiple new languages!

We are happy to announce that the 3D Bits app for Shopify has been updated with some powerful new capabilities designed to simplify common use cases! While parametric 3D models offer incredible flexibility, we understand that the learning curve associated with programming them can be steep.

Our Bitbybit Runners allow you to easily include Bitbybit.dev's powerful 3D CAD and computational geometry capabilities into your own websites via a single UMD JavaScript file. In our latest release, we're excited to introduce a completely new runner specifically for the ThreeJS game engine!