About Kit

Kit is built on a simple thesis: any data format can be reverse engineered. Research has shown how undocumented formats can be recovered by studying the software that reads them.¹ We are applying that principle to CAD.

Our goal is efficient, lossless translation of any CAD file between every supported format, in both directions. That means preserving the full parametric model, from geometry and parameters to constraints and design history, so designs stay editable.

We have a long way to go. Kit is free and open source under the MIT licence. We invite everyone in the FOSS CAD community to explore the code, challenge our approach and contribute.