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Hi everyone, Vico here. As the VedaCAD ecosystem continues to grow, I wanted to create a dedicated, centralized thread to act as our official support and updates hub on the forum. For those new to the project, VedaCAD (vedacad.com) is a modern cloud package manager and environment synchronizer for CAD: The Client: A unified, pure LISP (.vlx) engine that natively manages all your CAD plugins and environment configurations via an isolated local sandbox (Zero-Install, bypassing traditional APPLOAD fragility). The Cloud Ecosystem: Personal Tiers: A frictionless, unlisted distribution network where developers can share tools instantly using 6-character ShareCodes (VCIDs)—no review bottlenecks, what you code is exactly what is delivered. Enterprise Tiers (B2B): A Zero-Trust infrastructure with granular RBAC for internal employee synchronization, and 'Project Arks' for strict sub-contractor drafting standard enforcement. VedaCAD is essentially a highly optimized deployment manager. It replaces APPLOAD and manual path setups by fetching your physical files (.LSP, .DLL, .CTB, etc.) and placing them in a secure local C: drive cache (via VCID). It manages demand-loading, bypasses Windows file locks using a .bak renaming trick for updates, and automatically injects Support Paths—without modifying your actual source code. Open Ticket System Please treat this thread as our open ticket system. If you encounter any bugs, have optimization suggestions, or need usage help, drop a reply here. I promise to respond to every single question within 48 hours. Architecture & Data Sovereignty We take performance and data compliance seriously. VedaCAD spans 6 user tiers (BASE, FREE, PRO, TEAM, CORP, and CORP(DED)). To guarantee low latency and strict data residency compliance globally, our backend is deployed across 5 major geographical data centers (ENAM, WNAM, EU, APAC, and OC), powered entirely by Cloudflare's edge network. Version Updates Whenever the VedaCAD client receives a version update, I will post the official Release Notes and changelogs right here in this thread. Share Your Work! Lastly, this space belongs to the community! If you are a developer and have published your plugins on VedaCAD, you are highly encouraged to share them here. Please drop your VCID, a link to your original forum release thread, and a Demo GIF if you have one. Example: [Codebase Packer] VCID: 0FBGZB @ VedaCAD https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/topic/99202-sharing-a-lisp-codebase-packer-thoughts-on-modern-cad-environment-governance/ --- VedaCAD Social network --- Discord (Comprehensive Hub & Real-time Support): Join our all-in-one Discord Social for instant troubleshooting, propose development requirements, Technical Development Discussions, VCID shared by the developer, and direct interaction with the development team: https://discord.gg/GD6pJ98aT8 Reddit (Pure VCID Showcase & Sharing): A dedicated space focused strictly on discovering, sharing, and discussing new VCID tools and creative workflows. https://www.reddit.com/r/VCID/

Hi everyone, Like the vast majority of people in the AEC industry, we are ordinary draftsmen and engineers who sit in front of CAD terminals every single day. Across thousands of drawing offices worldwide, millions of silent professionals get their drawings issued, survive crazy deadlines, and make it home to their families on time because of the incredible, free AutoLISP utilities shared across legendary communities and archives like CADTutor, TheSwamp, Lee Mac Programming, GileCAD, and AfraLISP. The physical world is quite literally built on the unsung labor of these elite creators. Yet, we noticed a bizarre and unjust technical paradox in the modern software era: A web developer can write a simple script, publish it on GitHub, and instantly get millions of downloads and global acclaim. Meanwhile, the legendary CAD developers who wrote the complex, non-linear algorithms that literally automate the construction of our physical cities often remain hidden from the broader software engineering landscape. While our beloved forums and reference sites have done an incredible, heroic job hosting these tools with thread-specific attachment counters for decades, these invaluable metrics remain scattered across the vast, fragmented sea of historical discussion. We currently lack a unified, global space to aggregate this data and show the software world the true, cumulative scale of AutoLISP’s real-world impact. We think our community's creators deserve to have their collective footprint visible to the world. To give back to the legends who paved our way, we built the Pioneers Index (hosted under the VedaCAD directory). Our starting point is pure, non-commercial community gratitude: to provide a clean, central space where the CAD developers who build our world finally get the recognition and global metrics they deserve. We want to make one thing absolutely clear: The Pioneers Index is built entirely on our FREE Tier. The FREE tier is permanently free, designed from day one as our Community Edition. You do not need to buy a PRO subscription, nor do we want you to. The entire ranking and sharing ecosystem is 100% open and free for the community: Claim Your @username: Any developer can sign up for a free community account and secure their unique, permanent creator page (e.g., vedacad.com/@vico ) at zero cost. Dual-Track Sharing (Creators & Curators): For Creators (Developers): You can publish your individual AutoLISP, FAS, or VLX utilities to generate unique 6-character shortcodes (VCIDs) for instant, manual-free loading. For Curators (Workflow Architects): Even if you aren't a coder, you can aggregate other creators' public assets into job-oriented toolkits (e.g., steel detailing, structural annotation packs) to generate curated collections (with a B- prefix). Both individual assets and curated bundles are dynamically ranked on the global Pioneers leaderboard based purely on their natural, cumulative download and installation counts. The B2B Enterprise Footprint Indicator (Enterprise Adoptions): To truly visualize your impact in the professional world, our database tracks a unique metric: Enterprise Adoptions. The leaderboard will display exactly how many companies, design firms, and general contractors have imported your plugin into their workspaces and registered it as an official, locked-in component of their corporate drafting standard. Strict Sovereignty Boundaries: VedaCAD operates purely as a neutral, "As-Is" delivery conduit (Upload as-is, store as-is, download as-is). We will not decompile, modify, or encrypt your work. We built this space not to sell a proprietary sandbox, but because we—as a global drafting community—believe that the legends of AutoLISP should never be forgotten. We'd love to invite the developers, curators, and CAD managers here to explore the live index, secure your @username, and share your thoughts on this initiative. Explore the live board here: vedacad.com/pioneers Respect and cheers, Vico & the CAD Community --- Note: English is not my native language. I use Google AI to translate and polish my posts to ensure clarity and respect for the community's technical depth.