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RustDraft roadmap

RustDraft 1.1.0 is out for macOS (Apple silicon), Windows (x64 and ARM64) and Linux (x64). It is a young project: good for 2D drafting, dimensioning and plotting, and still missing parts of what a full CAD suite does. This page says what works today, what is known to be missing and what comes next.

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What works today

Area	What you get
Interface	Windows-style ribbon (10 tabs, split buttons, layer and property lists), application menu, Quick Access Toolbar, file tabs, floating command line, ViewCube and navigation bar, status bar toggles, Properties and Layers palettes, 18 languages
Command line	AutoCAD command names and aliases, prompts with keywords, AutoComplete, @dx,dy, @d<a, #x,y, direct distance entry, transparent commands, scripts
Draw	LINE, PLINE (arcs, widths), CIRCLE, ARC, RECTANG, POLYGON, ELLIPSE, SPLINE, CONIC (exact conic arcs, saved as rational splines), POINT, XLINE, RAY, DONUT, REVCLOUD, WIPEOUT, TEXT, MTEXT
Modify	ERASE, MOVE, COPY, ROTATE, SCALE, MIRROR, STRETCH, OFFSET, TRIM, EXTEND, FILLET, CHAMFER, BREAK, JOIN, EXPLODE, arrays, draw order, OVERKILL, grips
Precision	Object snaps, polar tracking, ortho, grid snap, dynamic input
Annotation	DIM commands with dimension styles and associative dimensions, multileaders, tables, TrueType and SHX fonts, right-to-left text
Hatches and blocks	Pattern, solid and gradient fills; blocks, attributes, the Block Editor, in-place editing, external references
Parametric	Geometric and dimensional constraints, AUTOCONSTRAIN, parameters with expressions
Layouts and output	Paper-space layouts, viewports, page setups, plot styles, PLOT and EXPORTPDF, SVG and PNG export
Files	DWG and DXF reading and writing, at a chosen file version; AUDIT and RECOVER; autosave and drawing recovery
Automation	MCP server, JSON control channel, rustdraft-cli, AutoLISP, scripts and alias files

Known gaps

• 3D — there is no 3D modelling yet (no EXTRUDE, REVOLVE, solids or surfaces).
• File round-trips — some objects that RustDraft doesn’t model can be lost when a DWG or DXF is saved. Keep a copy of drawings that come from other programs before saving over them.
• Ribbon — no contextual tabs yet (for example a Text Editor tab while editing MTEXT) and no slide-out panels; collapsed panels open a plain list of their commands.
• Builds — the macOS and Windows builds are not signed or notarized, there is no Linux ARM build and no Windows installer yet.

Next

1. Contextual ribbon tabs and slide-out panels, so the ribbon behaves like Windows CAD in every state.
2. Keep every object through a DWG/DXF save.
3. Signed and notarized builds, a Windows installer, and a Linux ARM build.
4. The first 3D commands.

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