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by guitarbill 1177 days ago
I've found CadQuery to be a nice replacement for OpenSCAD. The viewer isn't as good, but using CadQuery + Jupyter Notebook is real nice. And it does fillets/chamfers, plus you can reference geometry. Bit of a learning curve though
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atoav 1176 days ago
There is also CQ-editor which is a graphical frontend, but I did not manage to get the official release to run on Ubuntu 22 as it threw some import errors.

Cadquery is great, I use it to parametrically create parts for electronics libraries (so a lot of similar looking geometries with slightly different dimensions).

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guitarbill 1176 days ago
My experience has been similar. By viewer, I meant the CQ-editor. I've also had issues getting it to run. IMO, it tries to do too much.

Since Jupyter-CadQuery [0] uses Juypter as an "editor", it's much more mature and stable. And if the viewer blows up, the notebook still works and can simply be reloaded. Debugging via replay is great.

It's also nice that you can install Jupyter-CadQuery on a different machine, either via Conda or Docker. And the standalone viewer looks awesome. It's a really exciting ecosystem.

[0] https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery/

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