Cadquery_Notes.md

CadQuery Links

CadQuery is a parametric modeling library written in python.

• Documentation - https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Github - https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery

Other similar software

• OpenSCAD - https://openscad.org/
• Tinkercad - https://www.tinkercad.com/
• Freecad - https://www.freecadweb.org/

Pros

• It's open source!
• Uses python; all of python libraries / ecosystem are available to use with it.
• You can modularize your code.
• Heavy focus on selectors.

Cons

• Has a learning curve.
• Can be tricky to setup.

pip installation

pip install cadquery==2.2.0b0

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CQ-editor

Gui application that lets you code and see your CadQuery objects.

• Github - https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor

Pros

• UI to see your changes.

Cons

• Packaged installer uses an old version of CadQuery, and doesn't have all of the latest features.

Note

• Has internal code functions to integrate your script with. Not really a con but you should be mindful of it.

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CadQuery VSCode

Alternative to CQ-Editor

• code https://framagit.org/roipoussiere/cadquery-vscode

Notes

• Has some setup to get it up and running using a docker vm.

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CadQuery Jupyter Notebook

• Github - https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery

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Social Links

• Discord - https://discord.gg/Bj9AQPsCfx
• Google Group - https://groups.google.com/g/cadquery/
• Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/cadquery/