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CadQuery-- a parametric cad script framework

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2014-10-30 · latest 2022-02-07

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  1. …reason is this: selecting a subcomponent in a complex hierarchical model is basically a nightmare: https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/29
    comment by ur-whale · 2022-02-07 · in CadQuery Comes of Age
  2. …retrieval: can't label things and get to them later by name. See this github issue for example: https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/29 - the UI (cq-editor) is unusable for real-world work: no perspective rendering, no graduations in…
    comment by ur-whale · 2022-02-06 · in CadQuery –- A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
  3. …retrieval: can't label things and get to them later by name. See this github issue for example: https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/29 - the UI (cq-editor) is unusable for real-world work: no perspective rendering, no graduations in…
    comment by ur-whale · 2021-10-21 · in Getting the best out of OpenSCAD
  4. …with Python 3. Is someone working on that? Edit: Never mind, yes there is a plan for Python 3. https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/203
    comment by hathawsh · 2019-01-02 · in OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects
  5. CadQuery allows scripting of FreeCAD, and comes close to "OpenSCAD with a GUI". https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery
    comment by bsilvereagle · 2018-12-04 · in Scripting, Customization and Automation Using Tcl in Creo
  6. …impossible). The power of Python gets limited to thinking about only one thing at a time. See https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/167 They are trying to fix this in 2.0, but that's still in early development.
    comment by robodan · 2018-05-19 · in CadQuery – a parametric CAD script framework
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    CadQuery – a parametric CAD script framework
    story by helb · 2018-05-10 · 16 comments
  8. …provides a Python scripting environment in FreeCAD that you can use in tandem with GUI operations. https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery
    comment by bsilvereagle · 2016-10-06 · in Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD
  9. I'm excited about cadquery for this reason. It's a Python library. https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery
    comment by Sodel · 2015-05-30 · in Antimony – A fresh look at CAD software
  10. …As for the others complaining about usability, I would guess that something like https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery would be a suitable direction....
    comment by kanzure · 2014-10-30 · in Verb - A CAD Library for the Web