Hey, I'm Hanno! I'm a self-employed software developer and maker, living in the beautiful Odenwald region in Germany.
I work on Fornjot, an early-stage project to create a next-generation, code-first CAD application. I've been experimenting with this for years on the side, and it's now my main professional focus.
If you're interested, check out Fornjot's website or the GitHub repository. If you want to support the project, please consider sponsoring me.
I'm interested in making and small-scale manufacturing, and I'm working on a bunch of side projects related to that. Most notably, I make (and occasionally sell) notebooks.
I'm also a big believer in open source, and do most of my work out in the open. Check out my GitHub profile or read my updates to follow along.
Published: 2021-10-22 (updated 2022-03-03)
I'm a software developer. I've learned to prefer clear code, written in a programming language, to complex graphical user interfaces that control opaque data formats. Applied to CAD, this approach is called Code-CAD or Programmatic CAD. Let's talk about some of the advantages of Code-CAD, as I see them.
Go to note...Published: 2022-02-22
You might be looking at the huge line-up of CAD software that is available today and think, what's the point of building another one? Aren't there already enough options?
Yes, there are a whole lot of options to choose from. And I tried to do that, again and again. Choose, I mean. But I've always come away unhappy from the experience.
Go to note...Published: 2022-01-24
Fornjot, the CAD program I'm working on, uses a technique called boundary representation (or b-rep, for short). This is the traditional technique, used by many of the big commercial CAD packages, and it wasn't my first choice. In this note, I'd like to explain where I started with Fornjot, and why I ended up with b-rep.
Go to note...Notebook #6 is finally done! Came out pretty good, all things considered.
Another tiny step of progress on notebook #6: The rubber strap seems to be attached well. The connection will become even stronger, once I've glued on the back side of the cover.
And I started doing just that. By next weekend, when I'm back here in the workshop, the glue will have dried, and I can hopefully finish the notebook.
Another bit of progress on notebook #6: glued the rubber band to the cover. I hope this will hold well enough, so I can finish glueing the cover to the text block next. Almost finished!
