[maouida]

CadQuery was an inspiration when I built FluidCAD. I wanted the workflow to be as close to traditional CAD as possible with more interactive UI.

https://fluidcad.io

[junon]

This looks amazing. I'm going to give this a try later.

If I have a DXF or something of the outline of something (a PCB in this case) can I import it and build around it somehow?

[maouida]

Only step import at the moment. I'll add svg next.

[junon]

My particular immediate use case would be to export the board outline and mounting holes from a kicad project (SVG or DXF, whatever works) and build a chassis for it. Obviously I can do this in freecad but I've been looking for an intuitive cad-as-code system to check into git instead. So this would be awesome!

[WillAdams]

While not code as CAD, Dune 3D has the creation of enclosures for electronics projects as its _raison d’être_, and has a facility for Python scripting:

https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/python.html

[fallat]

How's this different from RepliCAD?

[maouida]

Replicad is designed primarily to be used as a library with the web editor as a helper. FluidCAD is designed to be used as full CAD package code + UI. I've outlined some of my motives in recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721997