Fireball Helix
The modern geometric kernel.
Big ideas deserve a better engine. Fireball Helix is the next-generation geometric modeling kernel being built for modern hardware, precision design and AI at the controls.
The future modeling engine of Fireball Designer. Built in Rust. Built for native MCP. Built to take on the toughest shapes you can imagine.
In development · Not yet available for licensing
Built for what comes next
More ambition. More possibility. More Fireball.
For the makers pushing CAD, CAM, simulation and 3D printing forward. This is the vision driving Helix.
AI at the controls
Native MCP will put AI in the modeling seat. Built so your AI can work with real geometry, not just talk about it.
Built for today’s machines
Modern processors. Modern graphics. A fresh foundation designed to turn the hardware you already own into more modeling power.
Serious geometry. No shortcuts.
Precision solids, flowing surfaces and demanding blends. Helix is being built for the parts you actually want to make.
Confidence in every shape
Reliable results are the ambition from day one, from your first sketch to the complex assemblies that push a kernel to its limits.
Your platform. Your workflow.
One modern modeling foundation, planned for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows and Linux. Built to go where your ideas take you.
Born inside Fireball Designer
Helix will power Fireball Designer. Real projects and real modeling challenges will shape it before it reaches other software makers.
A new challenger to the established kernels.
Parasolid and ACIS helped define generations of CAD. Helix is taking a fresh run at what comes next: modern hardware, AI-native control and the freedom to build a modeling engine for today. The ambition is clear: earn a place alongside the leading kernels, then push the standard forward.
Made for Fireball Designer.
Helix will be the geometric heart of Fireball Designer, turning ideas into precise, buildable shapes. It will prove itself in the studio where you model, design and make.
Explore Fireball Designer →Interested in building with Helix?
We’re building Helix for Fireball Designer first, with a future beyond it. Making the next great design tool? Contact us to tell us what you have in mind.