OCCT VS cadquery

Compare OCCT vs cadquery and see what are their differences.

OCCT

Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) is an open-source software development platform for 3D CAD, CAM, CAE. This is a clone of the official repository located on https://dev.opencascade.org/. Please use official development portal for registering issues and providing patches. (by Open-Cascade-SAS)

cadquery

A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT (by CadQuery)
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OCCT cadquery
11 30
842 2,777
7.8% 3.5%
8.2 8.3
8 days ago 6 days ago
C++ Python
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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OCCT

Posts with mentions or reviews of OCCT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-23.

cadquery

Posts with mentions or reviews of cadquery. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OCCT and cadquery you can also consider the following projects:

CavalierContours - 2D polyline library for offsetting, combining, etc.

pythonocc-core - Python package for 3D CAD/BIM/PLM/CAM

awesome-openscad - A collection of awesome OpenSCAD projects

blender-cad-tools - a collection of Blender addons to make CAD design with Blender even more enjoyable

FreeCAD - This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.

solvespace - Parametric 2d/3d CAD

pymadcad - Simple yet powerful CAD (Computer Aided Design) library, written with Python.

FreeCAD - Link branch FreeCAD

OCP

cq_gears - CadQuery based involute gear parametric modelling

PrusaSlicer - G-code generator for 3D printers (RepRap, Makerbot, Ultimaker etc.)

curated-code-cad - A list of the various code-cad projects out there.