CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
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Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#2There's also declaracad, similar idea but seems to be in an earlier stage of development:
https://github.com/codelv/declaracad
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#3I wish more people would try this over openscad. I like openscad but the UI and with cadquery you use python! and now I noticed "CadQuery supports Jupyter notebook out of the box"
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#4I wish more people would try this over openscad. I like openscad but the UI and with cadquery you use python! and now I noticed "CadQuery supports Jupyter notebook out of the box"
I actually like the GUI way of designing in FreeCAD/Fusion 360 (which I wouldn't say about much) but for me it's about the file format on disk. I would love it if they had a sane human-readable format, git-friendly. I appreciate that wouldn't be trivial.
So I'm really interested in learning something like OpenSCAD or CadQuery, even if only for files I can use and read anywhere.
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#5I wish more people would try this over openscad. I like openscad but the UI and with cadquery you use python! and now I noticed "CadQuery supports Jupyter notebook out of the box"
The jupyter-cadquery extension renders models with three.js via pythreejs in a sidebar with jupyterlab-sidecar: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery#b-using-a-do...
https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery/blob/master/...
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#6Another open source alternative in the wake of the Fusion 360 debacle it seems.
I will have a look. I'm no CAD expert and I have tried FreeCAD but it seems it's almost there but not yet. My use cases are very simple and this may be enough but nevertheless I think a GUI is the way to go for these kind of applications.
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#7I wish more people would try this over openscad. I like openscad but the UI and with cadquery you use python! and now I noticed "CadQuery supports Jupyter notebook out of the box"
I actually like the GUI way of designing in FreeCAD/Fusion 360 (which I wouldn't say about much) but for me it's about the file format on disk. I would love it if they had a sane human-readable format, git-friendly. I appreciate that wouldn't be trivial. So I'm really interested in learning something like OpenSCAD or CadQuery, even if only for files I can use and read anywhere.
thing is freecad or openscad are not good at ergonomics, to the point that editing code is .. not far
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#8Another open source alternative in the wake of the Fusion 360 debacle it seems. I will have a look. I'm no CAD expert and I have tried FreeCAD but it seems it's almost there but not yet. My use cases are very simple and this may be enough but nevertheless I think a GUI is the way to go for these kind of applications.
What is the Fusion 360 debacle?
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#9I don't really have experience with the architecture of CAD applications. What's the relationship between a CAD program and the OpenCascade kernel? Since both this and FreeCAD use OCCT are files compatible between them?
Re: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
#10If you like this sort of thing, I can recommend SALOME for its excellent Python bindings, each of which corresponds to a GUI action as well.