254: Design Better Reptile Enclosures with This Tool | CritterCAD

What if you could build your reptile enclosure before spending a single dollar? In this episode, I sit down with Daniel Wilson, creator of CritterCAD, a 3D vivarium design platform that helps keepers design naturalistic enclosures, experiment with layouts, and evaluate their husbandry using a species-specific CARE score. We discuss how the software was built, the challenges of turning husbandry into a digital tool, the role of community-driven care information, and where CritterCAD is headed next. Whether you're planning your next enclosure or just love innovative reptile-keeping tools, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

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3:40 Welcome Daniel & Background

11:11 Career & Education

13:16 Intro to CritterCAD31:29 Live CritterCAD Demo and picking enclosure

40:11 Substrate

57:48 Backgrounds

1:03:42 Lighting

1:10:45 Generating a Shopping list

1:12:45 Plants & Adding the Animal

1:16:28 Care Score

1:26:00 Adding Custom 3D Assests

1:38:00 Final Words on CritterCAD

1:41:50 Outro