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CadQuery GUI editor based on PyQT

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2020-08-23 · latest 2026-10-10

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  1. …//cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#qu... (I recommend CQ-editor for an easy install: https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/releases/ ) It's a similar idea to OpenSCAD, but embedded in Python and using a better geometry…
    comment by wren6991 · 2026-10-10 · in OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
  2. …as the changes were cheap and not tedious to do. [1] https://github.com/cadquery/cadquery [2] https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor [3] https://github.com/jmwright/cadquery-llm-skill
    comment by okramcivokram · 2026-08-17 · in Design 3D-printable parts by talking
  3. …[2] https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#why-cad... [3] https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor [4] https://zoo.dev/
    comment by pbronez · 2024-11-18 · in We are shutting down Ondsel
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    CadQuery Editor – a program for building parametric 3D CAD models using Python
    story by mithrilskeleton · 2023-09-03 · 0 comments
  5. …and are still unravelling them. I’ve also had a couple of apps require tweaks to unbreak, e.g. https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/issues/266 , if you build it with a version of Qt that supports Wayland (the default, though their…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2022-09-19 · in An X11 apologist tries Wayland
  6. …here and run the launcher. It drops you in the editor/debugger workspace with full functionality. https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/releases/tag/0.2 It doesn't appear to modify your system in any way. I understand that other modes of…
    comment by progman32 · 2022-02-07 · in CadQuery Comes of Age
  7. …unpleasant to have as an environment. There seems to be a drive to using it inside it's own editor https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor while nice seems like wasted engineering effort in developing an editor when the language needs so…
    comment by Already__Taken · 2022-02-06 · in CadQuery –- A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
  8. Doesn't https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor work on MacOS? I don't really see how development has fizzed out. There have been quite a few commits the last couple of months.
    comment by rowanG077 · 2021-10-18 · in Code CAD – Use code to create CAD models
  9. …looks something like this [1] https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery#alternative-anaconda-in... [2] https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/releases
    comment by ur-whale · 2021-07-01 · in Curated Code CAD (2020)
  10. …it to work by following conda guides. I run NixOS so for me it's as installing it as a package. [1] https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor
    comment by rowanG077 · 2020-08-23 · in AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller