Into 3D

100% Rust · CAD · CAM · CAE · MAT · PLM · ERP · MES · QMS · PMO · CRM · TIX · CCB · BUS

One platform. Full digital thread.

Design, make, and run the business on one Rust binary — every change on one auditable thread.

Why leave twelve tools open?

Design & make

Model, simulate, and drive the machine from one place — no export-import shuffle between apps.

Digital thread

Every change lands on one auditable line, so you can always answer how a part became what it is.

Ops on one core

Quotes, jobs, and the books run on the same Rust core as the CAD — one binary, one source of truth.

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N23D 2026 — $250, permanent license

Not on sale yet. When N23D 2026 ships it will be a one-time $250 permanent license — no subscription. Want to hear the day it is ready?

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A real company does not wake up with thirteen vendors. It accumulates them. First SolidWorks-class CAD, because someone has to draw the part. Then a PDM vault, because the drawings started lying. Then ERP, because purchasing and inventory refused to live in email. Then MES, because the floor needed dispatch that the ledger could not see at shift speed. Then a ticket tool for IT. Then a separate CMMS for the presses. Then HRIS for badges and pay. Then a consolidation spreadsheet because HoldCo is not a plant code no matter how many times finance renames the site. Then a SCADA island because the cell does not speak the ticket tool’s language. On a good day it is “working.” On every day it is fragile, inconsistent, insecure, and unplanned.

Fragile: every hand-off is a file, a midnight connector, or a heroic intern with a mapping spreadsheet. Inconsistent: the CRM SKU is not the PLM item is not the ERP part is not the MES traveler is not the SCADA tag. Insecure: thirteen identity planes, thirteen patch stories, thirteen places a contractor account can hide. Unplanned: change means an ECO in one tool, a CAB in another, a facilities email in a third — and the plant ships anyway.

A working factory that still fails when thirteen systems disagree on identity

N23D is the opposite shape. One Rust foundation. one native Rust binary — N23D — 100% Rust we write. One identity plane: Item, VariantId, Person, AssetId. One change spine: CCB. One thread across CAD · CAM · CAE · MAT · PLM · ERP · MES · QMS · PMO · CRM · TIX · CCB · BUS. File readers are interchange. Vendors are not the runtime source of truth.

N23D modules — CAD through BUS on one identity plane

Why leave thirteen tools open? Because that is what cobbling vendors produces: a business that looks integrated in the all-hands slide and disagrees with itself on the dock. Close them. Keep one record.

Check-in is save. CAM does not fork the body. Materials only from MAT — missing density means mass unknown. ERP is one company’s books; BUS holds HR, org, and group without fake 1120 or fake Lohnsteuer. TIX keeps AssetId alive; ERP only sees the financial view. CCB is the change record, not a second vault. No SIL sticker we have not earned. That is the honest v1.

Typed identity from design through operate — not a ZIP of exports

If you still need thirteen vendors after you buy this, we failed. One binary. One auditable thread. Design, make, operate, and run the company on the same record.