An open simulation and construction platform for creators, enabling everyone to quickly turn ideas into physical objects.
ForgeX is an open-source platform that integrates multidisciplinary simulation, intelligent design, and modular manufacturing. It is not just a software tool, but also a bridge from virtual to physical reality:
- Complete modeling, simulation, and verification in the virtual space
- Achieve rapid manufacturing in the real world based on blueprints, materials, and hardware modules
Its goal is to provide a free, open, and interdisciplinary creation environment for makers, engineers, students, and researchers, minimizing the threshold for creation.
- Rapid Idea Validation: Simulate multidisciplinary processes such as circuits, mechanics, chemistry, and biology in a virtual environment
- Interdisciplinary Integration: Integrate design and computing capabilities across multiple fields including mechanics, electronics, materials science, biology, and chemistry
- Integration of Virtual and Physical Realities: Blueprint-driven, forming a complete closed loop from virtual simulation to real-world manufacturing
- Open Sharing: The platform is permanently open-source and free, supporting personal learning, scientific research experiments, and commercial innovation
- Modularity and Scalability: Plugin mechanism + microservice architecture, supporting multiple languages, multiple hardware, and multiple platforms
- Ease of Learning: Users can quickly get started with simple learning
- Circuit Simulation: Visualization of circuit electron flow and device states (capacitors, inductors, battery life, etc.) at the chip pin level
- Mechanical Simulation: Stress analysis, material deformation, calculation of motion trajectories and resistance of tools in soil/air/water flow
- Dynamics Calculation: Flight trajectories of objects in the air, force bearing, and energy consumption
- Interdisciplinary Linkage: Linked simulation of mechanics & circuits, chemistry & thermodynamics, aerodynamics & material mechanics
- Ecosystem Simulation: For example, when growing plants in a container, the evolution process of soil, leaves, and microorganisms can be observed
- Experimental Reaction Simulation: Visualization of solution mixing, temperature changes, and chemical reaction processes
- Life Science Exploration: Basic-level simulation of cell growth, gene expression, and protein interaction
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Blueprint System: All creation processes can be precipitated into blueprints, which can be reproduced, shared, and traded
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Hardware-Integrated Manufacturing Platform
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- Metal processing modules (CNC, UG numerical control)
- Circuit processing modules (processes such as wiring, welding, burning, and copper laying)
- Plastic processing modules (3D printing, photopolymerization, injection molding)
- Wood/composite material processing modules (numerical control engraving, laser cutting)
- Assembly modules (integrated assembly of mechanical components, circuit boards, and casings)
- Intelligent Design Recommendations: AI automatically optimizes structures, circuits, or material selection based on requirements
- Simulation Prediction: Automatic calculation of service life, energy efficiency, and cost
- Blueprint Generation: Rapid generation of editable design blueprints based on natural language descriptions
- Plugin Mechanism: Developers can freely expand functions, supporting multiple languages (Java, C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, JS...)
- RESTful / gRPC API: Cross-language and cross-platform interaction, enabling access to any computing framework or hardware device
- Mall Material System: Support for purchasing virtual materials (blueprints, designs) and physical materials (parts, tools, finished products)
- Collaborative Sharing: Blueprints can circulate freely, and users can conduct secondary creation or replicate others' designs
- Microservice Architecture: Each simulation/manufacturing module runs as an independent service, facilitating expansion and maintenance
- High-Performance Computing: Support for calling GPU/TPU to accelerate physical and chemical simulations
- Cross-Platform Support: Desktop, Web, and VR/AR terminals (for immersive modeling and simulation)
- Data-Driven: Unified storage of blueprints, simulation data, and material information, supporting version control and sharing
- Modular Deployment: Users can choose to install core modules (such as circuit/mechanical/biological modules) and expand on demand
- Enable students to simulate chemical reactions in virtual laboratories without worrying about dangers
- Enable makers to generate circuit boards using natural language and send them to CNC/3D printers for manufacturing with one click
- Enable researchers to conduct interdisciplinary collaboration and integrate physical, chemical, and biological models on a single platform
- Enable enterprises to quickly obtain standardized components and complete design solutions through the blueprint market
- Ultimately form a global open creator ecosystem — where everyone can create and everyone can share.
If you are interested, you can apply to join the repository and let's build this great project together!