Welcome to the documentation for Locus Studio, a new kind of CAD software for parametric geometric pattern design: a compass-and-straightedge construction canvas and a node-based dataflow graph, bridged live, with geometry that stays accurate until you export the vectors.

Use the sidebar on the right to navigate - it's on every page, so you can always see where you are and jump anywhere.

• Videos: the Algorista channel on YouTube, playlist by playlist, with each video matched to the pages it covers
• Welcome to Locus Studio: what it is and how the two windows fit together
• Community & support: ask questions, share your work, and get a license
• Installing & launching
• Core concepts: the ideas the rest of the docs assume
• Interface tour: where everything is on screen
• Your first pattern: a short end-to-end walkthrough

• The Modeling window: drawing by construction (points, lines, circles, arcs, booleans...)
• The Nodes window: the parametric dataflow graph and its node library
• Bridging the two: Realize, Reference, and Bake
• Patterns & symmetry: the 17 wallpaper groups and the random-tiler system
• Files & export: saving, and SVG/DXF export

See the Community & support page for where everything goes:

• Questions, ideas, show & tell -> GitHub Discussions
• Found a bug? -> the repository's Issues (short bug-report form)
• A license? -> email your machine ID to [email protected] (not the public boards)

Locus is built on open-source work by other people. The Credits page names the projects and their authors.