Installing CadQuery on Windows.md

Installing CadQuery on Windows

Install Python

• https://www.python.org/
• Make sure to set the path variable when installing on windows.
• open a command line and run

python --version

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Install virtualenvwrapper-win

• https://pypi.org/project/virtualenvwrapper-win/

pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

Create a Virtual Environment

• From a command line run

mkvirtualenv cadquery

Important commands

• mkvirualenv <name>
• rmvirtualenv <name>
• workon <name>

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Install CadQuery

• https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery

pip install cadquery==2.2.0b2

Create an Example script

import cadquery as cq
from cadquery import exporters

cylinder = cq.Workplane('XY').circle(1.5).extrude(3)

exporters.export(cylinder, './out/cylinder.stl')

Run your script

• Open a command line
• Run your script

python ./exampleScript.py