cadquery VS libfive

Compare cadquery vs libfive and see what are their differences.

cadquery

CadQuery-- a parametric cad script framework (by dcowden)
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cadquery libfive
1 25
435 1,338
- 1.6%
0.0 5.3
about 3 years ago 16 days ago
Python C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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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 2022-02-06.
  • CadQuery –- A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2022
    See this github issue for example: https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/29

         - the UI (cq-editor) is unusable for real-world work: no perspective rendering, no graduations in ortho views, no way to measure things on the object, no way to examine the BREP, etc ... Generally speaking, the UI is only a visualizer, and does not let you query / inspect the model in any detailed way.

libfive

Posts with mentions or reviews of libfive. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-14.

What are some alternatives?

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

freecad-cadquery2-workbench - Workbench to render CadQuery 2.x script in FreeCAD

jupyter-cadquery - An extension to render cadquery objects in JupyterLab via pythreejs

cq_gears - CadQuery based involute gear parametric modelling

curv - a language for making art using mathematics

CQ-editor - CadQuery GUI editor based on PyQT

libredwg - Official mirror of libredwg. With CI hooks and nightly releases. PR's ok

yjs - Shared data types for building collaborative software

fosscad-repo - Official FOSSCAD Library Repository

cadquery - A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT

cxx - Safe interop between Rust and C++

rayray - A tiny GPU raytracer, using Zig and WebGPU