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CadQuery is an intuitive, easy-to-use Python library for building parametric 3D CAD models. It has several goals. Build models with scripts that are as close as possible to how you’d describe the object to a human, using a standard, already established programming language. Create parametric models that can be very easily customized by end users. Output high-quality CAD formats like STEP and AMF in addition to traditional STL. Provide a non-proprietary, plain text model format that can be edited and executed with only a web browser. The scripts use a standard programming language, Python, and thus can benefit from the associated infrastructure. This includes many standard libraries and IDEs. CadQuery's CAD kernel Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) is much more powerful than the CGAL used by OpenSCAD. Features supported natively by OCCT include NURBS, splines, surface sewing, STL repair, STEP import/export, and other complex operations.
Features
- Build 3D models with scripts that are as close as possible to how you would describe the object to a human
- Create parametric models that can be very easily customized by end users
- Output high quality (loss-less) CAD formats like STEP and DXF in addition to STL, VRML and AMF
- Provide a non-proprietary, plain text model format that can be edited and executed with only a web browser
- Offer advanced modeling capabilities such as fillets, curvilinear extrudes, parametric curves and lofts
- Build nested assemblies out of individual parts and other assemblies
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