What is CADrangle?

CADrangle is a card game for those CAD nerds who are competitive about everything. Seriously, even competive CAD? Why can't you be normal?

How to Play

• Get 4-6 people together.
• Whoever last opened a CAD software is the first judge.
• The judge picks something the other players have to model.
  • These can be whatever you want.
    • "A bunny designed for injection molding."
    • "A planter that reminds me of Cthulu."
    • "Existential Dread."
• Draw hands.
  • From a shuffled deck, turn over the first card.
  • Left of judge starts.
  • Either choose the face-up card, or draw the top card.
  • Continue until all players have 5 cards.
• Set a timer for 5 minutes, and everyone else tries to model using the cards in their hands (plus one free Sketch) and their CAD software of choice to model the goal.
• The judge role moves to the left after each round.
• For each round you win, you get one less card in subsequent rounds.
• First to win 3 challenges wins!

Nuance

• In addition to the 5 in your hand, you always have a pocket "Sketch" to use. Some cards, like "Loft," give you an additional "Sketch" which can only be used with that card.
• If any player does not like their hand, they may discard their entire hand and draw a random hand with one less card (4 the first time, 3 the second time).
  • They may repeat this until their hand reaches 3 cards.
• CADrangle was designed for Fusion 360, but should work with most parametric CAD. Obviously software like Blender or TinkerCAD won't map well to these cards.
• For each hand a player wins, they get one less card in subsequent rounds. So whoever wins the first hand will only have 4 cards in the remaining rounds. This also means that to win, a player will end up with just a 3 card hand.

Making Your Own Deck

CADrangle has 52 cards in the deck, which means you can simply write the names of the cards on a normal playing card deck.

• I recommend using a permanent marker so the names won't wash off whenever you launder your cards.
  • If you always play with dirty cards you can ignore that.
• Anyways, here's the list of cards:

Card Type	Number
Sketch	8
Extrude	7
Revolve	5
Sweep	3
Shell	3
Chamfer/Fillet	4
Loft	3
Rectangular Pattern	3
Circular Pattern	3
Pipe	3
Combine	3
Plane at an angle	3
Draft	2
Mirror	2

What's Does CADrangle Mean?

I just put some random words after CAD; it doesn't mean anything. Truthfully, I'm not sold on the name myself.