The Oxide 3D Explorer
Oxide and Friends, Saturday, June 27th, 2026
Oxide's design lead discusses building an interactive 3D rack explorer from CAD drawings.
Oxide's design lead Ben Leonard joins hosts Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal to discuss the Oxide 3D Explorer.
The tool transforms static CAD drawings into an interactive 3D rack experience, now live at explorer.oxide.computer.
Leonard walks through the technical process of converting CAD files into a web-based interactive tool.
The project includes an accompanying open-source repository and accepts community contributions via pull requests.
The conversation covers the design and development journey behind the explorer.