CadQuery is a parametric modeling library written in python.

• Documentation - https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Github - https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery

• OpenSCAD - https://openscad.org/
• Tinkercad - https://www.tinkercad.com/
• Freecad - https://www.freecadweb.org/

• It's open source!
• Uses python; all of python libraries / ecosystem are available to use with it.
• You can modularize your code.
• Heavy focus on selectors.

• Has a learning curve.
• Can be tricky to setup.

pip install cadquery==2.2.0b0

Gui application that lets you code and see your CadQuery objects.

• Github - https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor

• UI to see your changes.

• Packaged installer uses an old version of CadQuery, and doesn't have all of the latest features.

• Has internal code functions to integrate your script with. Not really a con but you should be mindful of it.

Alternative to CQ-Editor

• code https://framagit.org/roipoussiere/cadquery-vscode

• Has some setup to get it up and running using a docker vm.

• Github - https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery

• Discord - https://discord.gg/Bj9AQPsCfx
• Google Group - https://groups.google.com/g/cadquery/
• Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/cadquery/