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  1. CQ-editor

    CadQuery GUI editor based on PyQT

    Project mention: We are shutting down the Ondsel FreeCAD business | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-18

    OpenSCAD is my go-to. It's self-contained and AI coding tools know the syntax well enough to help you move fast. Unfortunately I keep hitting a complexity ceiling.

    If it doesn't like how I'm describing something, it crashes. I have to load an older version of my .scad and try a new approach. This usually happens 70% of the way into a complex project, which is quite discouraging.

    The Python ecosystem has CadQuery[0] and a few other tools built around the Open Cascade kernel[1] which is quite good in my limited experience. CadQuery is positioned as an OpenSCAD alternative [2], and I really want it to be. Unfortunately the user experience isn't there yet.

    Making an object with CadQuery is writing a Python program. Which means you need a Python environment and dev setup. CQ-editor [3] is nice, but needs a Python environment first. I think CadQuery would be much more viable OpenSCAD alternative if it was packaged into a standalone CQ-editor application and published via homebrew, etc.

    I'm also interest in Zoo [4](fka KittyCAD). They're trying to create a modelling tool that combines model-by-code and model-by-mouse. With some AI layered on top. They have an interesting architecture where they stream geometry to your local device from the cloud. Should be great for performance, but ties you to the cloud.

    [0] https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cascade_Technology

    [2] https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#why-cad...

    [3] https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor

    [4] https://zoo.dev/

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