Vishwakarma, named after the God of Architectural Creation, is a self-educational Engineering software. To help myself (Ram Shanker) learn various engineering approaches, algorithms, technology trends etc. It is NOT a validated or commercial software. You are free to look around and learn. My current explorations include (A) Pressure Vessel, (B) Process Piping and (C) Structural Engineering. This software can not open/interoperate with any commercial software generated files !
As I learn fundamental of engineering concepts, more and more exclusions shall shift to Inclusion as years progress. Usually, higher in the list, higher the priority!
2D Drafting
Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (Intelligent 2D)
Pressure Vessels / Equipment Modeling and Analysis
Shell Development Drawing Extraction (2D)
Process Piping Modeling and Analysis
Isometrics Extraction (2D)
ASME / API Code checking
Heater Modeling and Analysis
Structural Modeling and Analysis. Little Architecture modeling
Structural Code Checking
Structural GA Drawings (2D)
Local File Support. Data Server Support
Collaboration Support
User Manual / Documentation
Developer Manual / Documentation
Training Curriculum.
Web API.
Response Spectrum Analysis.
Cluster / Remote server analysis.
Interoperability with other softwares.
Connection Design.
Foundation Design.
PEB Design.
Non-isotropic Material.
Reinforcement Detailing.
Fabrication Drawing.
Pre-stressing tendons.
Composite Section.
Architectural Rendering.
IFC Export.
Some philosophy / guiding principle of this project. At least during the first two years of development.
- This software is supposed to be Jack of All trades, Master of None.
- This software is a freeware. Available freely for everyone without any warranty. Not for commercial use.
- Get the engineering part correct, leave graphics part for latter, when we have broader open source community.
Following technology choices are under consideration. In no particular order. I take inspiration from other free & open source softwares.
- Chromium : For Speed. Speed & Responsiveness of our software is very high priority. b
- SQLite : For robustness and care. This is the database we use for local file storage.
- Postgres SQL : For network based data storage and Multi-User collaboration.
- Blender : For 3D Rending.
- Protocol Buffer : For data class modeling and storage in database.
- Ribbon Interface : All the latest desktop softwares use to it.
- HTML Format & PDF Format : For design report generation.
- 64bit Local IDs / ULID.
- All strings are UTF-8 encoded UNICODE strings.
- No Commercial database is planned to be officially supported.
| Color | Tag | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Green | Solved | Required code changes done. |
| Green | Closed | Requested clarification provided to user in the issue itself. No change in code/docs. |
| Green | Documented | Documentation improved |
| Red | CodeRed | All decks on the table. Roadmap paused. Only for data corruption / synchronization issue. |
| Orange | Analysis | Errors in Analysis. |
| Orange | Design | Errors in code-checking. |
| Yellow | Graphics | Related to issues with display on the screen. |
| Yellow | Reports | Design reports printing error, without inaccuracy in analysis & design. |
| Yellow | Usability | Minor UI changes required to improve the usability of the software. |
| Blue | FeatureRequest | Reported issue is a feature request. May be incorporated in future. |
| Black | ReviewPending | Freshly reported issues. Auto assigned by the Bot. |
| Black | NeedMoreInfo | Difficulty in reproduction. Need more information from the user. |
| Gray | WontFix | The reported bug shall not be acted upon. |
| Gray | TooOld | Too old to be acted upon. Automatically assigned after 6 month of inactivity. |
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This being a new Green-Field software project, we intend to avoid too much old / legacy technology. We intend to support LATEST and LATEST-1 version of all operating systems. Accordingly we shall support Windows 10 / 11 onwards only. MAC OS 13 (latest only). Linux Ubuntu 24.04 (latest only). Android 13 / 14, iOS 17 (latest only).
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Few things, we intend to Re-Invent intentionally, for educational, responsiveness and fine-grained control over UI. Attempt shall be made to avoid as much dependencies. I understand this shall slowdown the development, but we are taking this decision for future velocity.
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I am restring the initial scope to ensure focus. However some architectural decisions can be made considering future scope. Nevertheless, it is our explicit goal NOT to be interoperable with other commercial softwares.
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Data compression is prioritized, even at the expense of ignoring programmatic flexibility.
I am Ram Shanker, a civil-engineering graduate from IIT Guwahati, working in Refinery & Petrochemical industry since last 14 years.