Two big new TinkerAtlas releases!
By MakerViking
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Category: Announcements
The birthday surprises are out. SindriCAD is a free, cross-platform parametric CAD app for makers, and TinkerView puts all your cameras and 3D printers in one self-hosted dashboard. Here's what they do and why I built them.
<p class="mb 2" Hey makers,</p <p class="mb 2" The surprises are out. On the birthday stream I finally got to show the two things I've been keeping quiet about, and now they're here for everyone. Both of them come from the same place: the itch to build the tool I wished already existed. Meet SindriCAD and TinkerView.</p <h2 class="font bold" SindriCAD: a CAD app that runs where you do</h2 <p class="mb 2" Here's the honest origin story. I'm on Linux, and the professional CAD package I relied on doesn't run there. I tried the usual workarounds. Running it through Wine was fragile. A Windows VM was too slow without a dedicated GPU to pass through. And I flatly refused to dual boot my way around my own daily driver. So I did the most maker thing I could think of: instead of bending my workflow around a tool that didn't fit, I built the tool.</p <p class="mb 2" SindriCAD is a free, parametric CAD app designed to feel familiar. That matters to me. I didn't want to relearn a whole new way of working, so it follows the workflow and keyboard shortcuts most makers already know from professional CAD. If you've used a mainstream parametric tool, you already mostly know SindriCAD.</p <p class="mb 2" It started as my Linux fix, but I'm building it for Windows and Mac (When I can afford the $99 yearly fee!) too. So even though the whole thing was born out of a Linux problem, it's meant to run wherever you do, on whatever you already work on.</p <p class="mb 2" What it does today:</p <ul <li <p class="mb 2" Solid modeling with the tools you actually reach for: extrude, fillet, chamfer, loft, mirror, and the rest of the everyday set</p </li <li <p class="mb 2" Parametric design, so your models stay editable and driven by real dimensions</p </li <li <p class="mb 2" Export straight to STL and STEP, ready for the slicer</p </li </ul <p class="mb 2" And it's not a mockup or a tech demo. SindriCAD has already produced real, printed parts. I've held them. That was the moment it stopped being an experiment and started being a tool. It still needs more work though, and I will release it in the next few days so you can test it out and give me feedback on things to improve, bugs to fix etc. </p <p class="mb 2" About the name: Sindri is the dwarf master smith from Norse mythology, the forger behind some of the gods' finest work. For a tool whose whole job is forging parts, it fit too well to pass up. It ships as SindriCAD by TinkerAtlas, and you'll find it at <a target=" blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text blue 600 hover:text blue 800 dark:text blue 400 dark:hover:text blue 200 underline cursor pointer transition colors underline offset 2 decoration 1 decoration current/40 hover:decoration current focus:decoration current" href="https://tinkeratlas.com/sindricad" tinkeratlas.com/sindricad</a soon.</p <p class="mb 2" For anyone who's followed my build in public stuff: yes, this is another piece of real software built with AI assisted development. Proof that you don't have to be a traditional coder to ship something you and other makers can genuinely use.</p <h2 class="font bold" TinkerView: your cameras and printers in one pane</h2 <img src="https://api.tinkeratlas.com/storage/v1/object/public/project images/articles/70aec187 0e8f 4711 b925 a50e749f3deb/1783547362236 vmjowy.jpg" alt="" height="auto" <p class="mb 2" The second reveal scratches a different itch. If you run a few printers and a camera or two, you already know the mess: one tab for the printer cam, another for the printer's web interface, a separate app for the security cameras, and half of those cams choke the moment a second person tries to watch.</p <p class="mb 2" TinkerView pulls all of it into one place. Think of it as a homelab observatory: your printer cams and your security cameras, plus live control of your Klipper, Prusa or Bambu Lab machines, in a single dashboard (Still more testing to be done on Bambu Lab, since I only have Klipper machines at the moment, but it has been tested ok on Prusa MK4 and XL)</p <p class="mb 2" A few things I'm especially happy with:</p <ul <li <p class="mb 2" One camera, everywhere at once. Cheap printer and security cams usually allow just a single viewer before they lock up. TinkerView opens one connection per camera and fans it out, so you can watch from your phone, your desktop, and the dashboard all at the same time without fighting over the stream.</p </li <li <p class="mb 2" Proper recording built in. Network video recording with tiered retention, object detection, low latency live view, and a Home Assistant feed if you run one.</p </li <li <p class="mb 2" Printer control, not just a video feed. Temps, fans, speed and flow, babystepping, moves, macros, file management, and print history for your Klipper and Moonraker printers, sitting right next to the camera tiles, and whatever features Prusa and Bambu has available for that. Optional print failure detection on the printer cams too.</p </li </ul <p class="mb 2" And here's the part that makes it a TinkerAtlas tool at heart: it's built to be handed to a friend. It ships as one shared Docker stack plus a hardware overlay you pick for your own machine, whether that's an NVIDIA box, an Intel or AMD system, a plain CPU only server, or a Raspberry Pi. It's happy on however you like to run your homelab too, from Unraid to CasaOS to plain Docker (More testing needed, but it's looking good so far and work flawlessly on my Unraid server. Get it running once, then help a maker friend stand up their own.</p <p class="mb 2" It'll be released soon. :)</p <h2 class="font bold" What this says about year two</h2 <p class="mb 2" Both of these come from the same instinct that started TinkerAtlas a year ago: makers shouldn't have to settle for tools that don't fit. When something's missing, build it. That's the direction year two is heading, more tools that come straight out of real maker problems, built in the open, and shared with the community that makes them possible.</p <p class="mb 2" If TinkerAtlas and these tools are useful to you, the best way to keep them coming is to keep the platform funded and to bring a maker friend into the fold. Either one genuinely helps.</p <ul <li <p class="mb 2" PayPal: <a target=" blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text blue 600 hover:text blue 800 dark:text blue 400 dark:hover:text blue 200 underline cursor pointer transition colors underline offset 2 decoration 1 decoration current/40 hover:decoration current focus:decoration current" href="https://paypal.me/makerviking" paypal.me/makerviking</a </p </li <li <p class="mb 2" Ko fi: <a target=" blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text blue 600 hover:text blue 800 dark:text blue 400 dark:hover:text blue 200 underline cursor pointer transition colors" href="http://ko fi.com/tinkeratlas" ko fi.com/tinkeratlas</a </p </li </ul <p class="mb 2" Thank you for an incredible first year, and for showing up to celebrate it. Now let's go build year two.</p <p class="mb 2" Thomas aka MakerViking</p
