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rapport: trimmed the competitor-positioning paragraph and the tools-i-wanted framing, just the feature list and the free/self-hostable facts now.\n\ndossier: reflects that it left the rhino plugin behind and is now its own standalone desktop app (own geometry kernel, own rust/wasm rendering engine, own file format), instead of the old rhino-vs-open-source-cad justification.\n\nopenbureau: reframed as the platform the other two are built on rather than just a collection point for finished tools, and named as still taking shape.
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**DOSSIER**\
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a rhino plugin for early-phase architectural design. walls, doors, windows, slabs, stairs, levels, and a 2d drawing layer that feels like a 2d drawing layer. native rhino objects, no parallel database to sync. what exists is either expensive proprietary software, or full bim systems built for office-scale documentation phases that don't fit how you actually think during a sketch. open source bim tools live in blender or freecad and follow a 3d-first logic — useful, but not how you 2d draw a plan. students and small offices end up either paying, pirating, or working around in plain rhino. dossier is the tool i wanted to use myself during my master's and my own work. why rhino and not a fully open source cad? rhino sells perpetual licences you actually own instead of subscriptions you rent, and its file formats (3dm, opennurbs) and apis (rhinocommon, eto.forms) are well documented and readable outside the application. that's not free software, but it's a workable position on ownership and open data and where some architects already work. freecad or librecad would be more philosophically open, but adoption in architecture is marginal. dossier meets the discipline where it is. open data, established community, enough infrastructure to build on.
a cad for early-phase architectural design. walls, doors, windows, slabs, stairs, roofs, levels, and a 2d drawing layer that feels like a 2d drawing layer. one semantic model as the single source of truth — plan, section, elevation, and 3d view are all derived from it, not separate drawings kept in sync by hand. it started as a rhino plugin; it's now its own standalone desktop app, with its own geometry kernel, rendering engine, and file format — no dependency on software you don't own. what exists is either expensive proprietary software, or full bim systems built for office-scale documentation that don't fit how you actually think during a sketch. open source bim tools live in blender or freecad and follow a 3d-first logic — useful, but not how you draw a plan in 2d. dossier is the tool i wanted to use myself, during my master's and in my own work. open data, agpl-licensed, part of the openbureau suite.
[repo](https://dossier.openbureau.ch)