From 31 March to 1 April 2012, the app was exhibited at the European Handmade Bicycle Exhibition (EHBE) in Schwäbisch Gmünd.[23]
On 11 April 2012, app has been presented at the Bespoked 2014 (the UK handmade bicycle show) in London.[24]
On 8 July 2017, Rosenberger presented rattleCAD at the EuroTcl 2017 (15th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting) in Berlin.[25][26][27]
On 7 July 2018, at the EuroTcl 2018 (16th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting) in Munich, Rosenberger presented the cad4tcl – an open-source CAD graphics library for Tcl/Tk, extracted from the main rattleCAD source.[28][29][30]
On 10 December 2018, first rattleCAD 4.0.0 preview release has been rolled out.[31]
In January 2019, rattleCAD 3.6.30 has been released. It was the last open-source release.
Bicycle base geometry in rattleCAD 4.0.22 Free.
Source closing
In 2019, Rosenberger announced ceasing open-source development and switching to proprietary development model for the next rattleCAD 4.x releases on the new website.[7]
rattleCAD 4.0 will not be free and open source anymore. Basically, there will be timely limited licenses for rattleCAD - a kind of user fee. This will allow me to continue to develop rattleCAD in the future. Since last autumn (2018) a lot has been done in rattleCAD.
—Manfred Rosenberger
Since then app provided via Gumroad as a limited freeware version[32][33][34] under donationware payment model (later freeware version replaced with a more restricted demoware version) and as commercial editions for private and professional use under subscription payment model.
As of June 2023, project page on SourceForge still actively used as a discussion board by users and app developers.[35]
Despite the fact that all the old source and binary builds licensed as an open-source has been deleted from SourceForge by developer in 2019, few code snapshots of original code and a fork of rattleCAD 3.x, hosted on GitHub,[36][37][38] and binary of the last open-source rattleCAD 3.6.30 and older releases, still circulated on the internet as of October 2023,[39][40][41][42] are now collected on the Internet Archive.[43]
Features
Design your bicycle - the rattleCAD method (3.4.01.38)
rattleCAD provides all the tools needed for design bicycle from preliminary design of basic geometry, adjusted to cyclist body size,[44] to producing full assembly and frame manufacturing documentation:
Step-by-step GUI for bicycle design.
Parametric design for basic geometry, then used to calculate detailed bicycle geometry, including shop drawings for frame tubes cutting.
development switched to proprietary (with Professional, Private and Demo versions), revised UI, new file format (*.rc4)
Supported: 4.1
October 31, 2020
bent tubes
Supported: 4.2
June 19, 2022
additional features to configure HeadTube, configure bent SeatStay, components separated into independent library
Latest version:4.3
September 1, 2023
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Unsupported
Supported
Latest version
Preview version
Future version
cad4tcl
cad4tcl[50] – is an open-source graphics library for Tcl/Tk to build CAD software, developed as a part of rattleCAD. It supports importing SVG and exporting SVG, PDF and DXF files.[29]
svgDOM
svgDOM[51] – is an open-source SVG graphics processing and optimization library for Tcl/Tk, developed as a part of rattleCAD.[29]
↑ "Meet the Vet who crafts custom steel bikes". Red Bull GmbH. 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2023-10-25. Mercer designs his frames on RattleCad, an open-source software. Once the proposed design has been signed off by the customer he's ready to start.
↑ Benziger, Macrae (18 March 2021). "Mountain Bike Suspension Linkage and Frame Design MQP"(PDF). Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Major Qualifying Project). In order to design an enduro mountain bike that maximizes uphill and downhill performance, I plan to combine features from various other bicycle designs. I will use a suspension design software specifically created for mountain bikes called Linkage X3. This software will be used to create a 2D simulation of a suspension design created to have the optimal amounts of bottom out resistance, pedaling support, and small bump sensitivity.
↑ "Bespoked 2014 - Events Talks". bespoked.cc. 11 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Friday 11th April: 16.00 - 17.00 - RattleCAD - Bicycle Design Software - In this talk rattleCAD will be presented with its main features and the parametric model based on stack and reach will be discussed against seat and toptube length.
↑ Rosenberger, Manfred (8 July 2017). "Refactoring approaches for rattleCAD, a domain specific CAD-application written in pure Tcl"(PDF). eurotcl.eu (Slides). Berlin, Germany – via 15th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting. rattleCAD is an open source CAD software that supports bicycle frame builder in building customized bicycle frames. Based on a wireframe geometry rattleCAD visualizes the new bike with all its parts and creates drawings for the workshop. rattleCAD is written in pure Tcl and is hosted on SourceForge.
1 2 3 Rosenberger, Manfred (7 July 2018). "A CAD-like graphic package for Tcl/Tk"(PDF). EuroTcl 2018 (Slides). Munich, Germany – via 16th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting. rattleCAD is an open source CAD-application to design bicycle frames and used the standard tk::canvas for the rendering of the grahics. (...) In my talk I will present and discuss the package cad4tcl.
1 2 3 "rattleCAD - Oversice Road Frame". GrabCAD 3D CAD Model Library. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 2023-10-25. This is an oversized Frame exported from rattleCAD via the rattleCAD_3D plugin.
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