A one-stop document for learning about cadCAD & how to use it.

Step 0: What IS cadCAD?

• cadCAD is an open-source, multi-scale modeling & simulation framework for building digital twins of complex systems
• Complex systems require modeling & simulation for us to understand their higher-order effects
• Digital Twins can enable Computer-Aided Governance of complex systems

Step 1: Getting Started with cadCAD

So you've heard about the amazing things cadCAD can do for open source modeling & simulation. Let's get you set up to use it!

A. 👩‍🎓 Take the cadCAD Complete Foundations Bootcamp course:

• Register at: cadCAD.Education
• Student tuition is covered by course sponsors Balancer Labs, Reflexer Labs, and BlockScience!

B. 🤖 Install cadCAD:

You have a few options here, depending how deep you are planning to dive into cadCAD.

Lite: Use cadCAD in Google Colab

• https://colab.research.google.com/
• Just copy & paste your model code into Google colab & go!

Power User: Install cadCAD on your local environment

• https://community.cadcad.org/t/python-newbies-setup-for-cadcad/101/3
• Follow the above instructions, then download your model repo of interest to your local environment and code away in your favorite tool (e.g. VS Code)

C.🚦 Walk through the cadCAD Tutorials:

Follow along with this 7-step tutorial, starting with a simple mechanical system. This tutorial demonstrates that simple mechanisms don't always compose intuitively - thus the importance of modelling & simulating complex systems.

Tutorials:

D. ⚔ Venture on cadCAD Quests:

Finished with the cadCAD tutorials? Venture on towards a cadCAD Quest below!