{"slug": "show-hn-sketchup-compatible-modeler-with-ai-capabilities", "title": "Show HN: SketchUp compatible modeler with AI capabilities", "summary": "PushForm, an open-source SketchUp-compatible 3D modeler with AI capabilities, launched on Hacker News' Show HN, offering push/pull modeling with live preview and exact-distance input. PushForm opens SketchUp models and LayOut documents directly and imports STEP, glTF, COLLADA, OBJ, 3DS, STL and DXF files, exporting .skp, STEP, GLB, COLLADA, OBJ and STL models plus PDF, SVG, DXF and LayOut drawings. The software is released under GNU GPLv3 with source on GitHub, and its cloud library saves documents automatically while secure links let clients orbit, measure and comment without installing anything.", "body_md": "### Pull ideas up into form\n\nDraw a circle or rectangle right on a face, then pull. A live preview shows exactly what you'll get before you let go, and you can type an exact distance at any time.\n\nPlan a cabinet, work out a shelving layout or try a new furniture design. Draw to real dimensions, explore how the parts fit, and make changes before you commit to materials.\n\nOpen SketchUp models and LayOut documents directly, then keep designing in PushForm. Import STEP, glTF, COLLADA, OBJ, 3DS, STL and DXF. Export models as .skp, STEP, GLB, COLLADA, OBJ or STL, and Layout drawings as PDF, SVG, DXF, LayOut documents or page images.\n\nPushForm is open source under GNU GPLv3. Study the code, change it for the way you work, and share improvements under the same license. Commercial use of GPL copies is welcome, too.\n\nThe source is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/PushForm/pushform-app). Opening the software does not publish your private designs.\n\nSketch a panel, pull it to thickness, then add the details. Push/pull modeling makes it easy to explore a cabinet carcass, a tabletop or a custom bracket at the size you need.\n\nPush a shape into a solid to cut pockets, openings and clean through-holes. No extra steps and no stray faces left behind. Just the shape you meant to make.\n\nHow deep should the cabinet be? Where should the shelf sit? Build up your design in 3D, compare proportions and check the fit of individual parts while changes are still easy.\n\nSwitch from shaded to hidden line for crisp, drawing-ready views, or turn on X-ray to see through walls and check what's behind them. Change the look of your model in a click, without touching the geometry.\n\nFrom a fitted cabinet to a weekend workshop project, use 3D to answer practical questions about size, spacing and how it all comes together.\n\nPlan base cabinets, wall units and built-ins. Explore carcass sizes, shelf spacing and door proportions before cutting panels.\n\nLay out rooms, cabinetry and furniture quickly, then present them in clean, client-friendly styles.\n\nWork out a table, bookcase or workbench in 3D. Size each part and explore joints before heading to the shop.\n\nExplore custom brackets, knobs and workshop jigs. Refine the shape and dimensions around the job it needs to do.\n\nBlock out enclosures and parts fast, then refine with Solid Tools, Follow Me and precise inference.\n\nLearn by designing something you can make. Start with Community Edition for learning, teaching and your projects.\n\nModel with confidence, save your work automatically, and export drawings and models for the people who need them.\n\nSmart inference snaps to endpoints, midpoints, edges and axes, so lines land exactly where you mean them.\n\nGive panels thickness, position parts and add profiles with Push/Pull, Move, Rotate, Offset and Follow Me.\n\nDocuments save automatically to your cloud library. Export a native copy to keep on your computer.\n\nSend a secure link. Clients orbit, measure and comment without installing anything.\n\nStart with a cabinet, a shelf or an idea for the workshop.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-sketchup-compatible-modeler-with-ai-capabilities", "canonical_source": "https://pushform.io/", "published_at": "2026-11-10 22:09:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-10 22:22:09.548790+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["PushForm", "SketchUp", "LayOut", "GitHub", "GNU GPLv3"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-sketchup-compatible-modeler-with-ai-capabilities", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-sketchup-compatible-modeler-with-ai-capabilities.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-sketchup-compatible-modeler-with-ai-capabilities.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-sketchup-compatible-modeler-with-ai-capabilities.jsonld"}}