tech.scad

Central catalog and documentation hub for the SCAD ecosystem: tooling, libraries, templates, and user projects.

Purpose

tech.scad is the broad entry point for SCAD-related work.

It provides one place to discover:

• reusable SCAD libraries;
• project/build tooling;
• project templates;
• user CAD projects;
• documentation about how these parts relate.

The repository is an information and catalog layer. It is not a runtime dependency of SCAD projects and does not own the implementation of the repositories it lists.

Navigation

• Repository catalog
• Tooling and templates
• Reusable libraries
• User projects
• Architecture and repository boundaries

Relationship with meta.scad-projects

meta.scad-projects and tech.scad deliberately have different scopes.

meta.scad-projects is the engineering and integration repository for the SCAD project ecosystem itself. It maintains a small controlled set of repositories needed to develop and verify the runtime, project tool, template and representative library integration.

tech.scad has the broader view. It catalogs all relevant SCAD technology, libraries and user projects, including repositories that do not need to be part of the meta integration test set.

In short:

meta.scad-projects
    maintain and verify the SCAD development ecosystem

tech.scad
    catalog and document the complete SCAD landscape

Repository model

The curated repository inventory lives in catalog.yml.

The catalog records membership and high-level role only. Detailed source, configuration, releases, implementation documentation and project status remain owned by each repository itself.

This distinction keeps tech.scad useful as a central overview without creating a second source of truth for every project.

Current areas

Tooling

Shared runtime and project workflow infrastructure, including docker.scad-toolchain, tool.scad-project and the reference template.

See tooling/README.md.

Libraries

Reusable CAD/reference geometry intended for consumption by multiple projects.

Current libraries include:

• lib.scad.clamps
• lib.scad.hub75

See libraries/README.md.

User projects

Concrete CAD projects remain independent repositories. They can use the shared tooling and libraries where appropriate, but inclusion in this catalog does not imply that a project has already been migrated to the latest project structure.

See projects/README.md.

Future automation

The initial repository deliberately starts with a small curated catalog.

Later automation can use catalog.yml to generate repository status, documentation indexes or dashboards. Live status should be generated from the repositories themselves rather than maintained manually in multiple places.