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by LegitShady 2098 days ago
How can you size shafts without engineers? Who does the calculation and review? Who is liable if it fails and someone gets hurt?
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It comes from the customers. They know what they want.
You guys aren't manufacturing from the cad files, are you? Like convert to gcode and send to a CNC? Or is it just for models only.

I'm not in that industry, but it makes sense you'd have a use for it at least.

The thing is that fusion360/solidworks/etc does parametric modelling so can probably be used just as easily, with the added benefit of being industry standards.

Where I see potential for using tools as cadquery is with product type configurators which are often part of ERP software aka CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote). Cadquery generated model would be part of the Configure. Of course this wouldn't work for complex product, but there are companies out there that may need a configurator for relatively simple product