CQ-editor

CQ-editor

CadQuery GUI editor based on PyQT that supports Linux, Windows and Mac.

Additional screenshots are available in the wiki.

Notable features

• Automatic code reloading - you can use your favourite editor
• OCCT based
• Navigation cube with rotation arrows
  • Always shows the current camera orientation
  • Click faces, edges or corners for one-click animated reorientation
• Graphical debugger for CadQuery scripts
  • Step through script and watch how your model changes
• CadQuery object stack inspector
  • Visual inspection of current workplane and selected items
  • Insight into evolution of the model
• Per-object display modes
  • Show each object as shaded, transparent or wireframe, or hide it
  • Assembly parts have their own mode; setting one on the assembly applies it to all of them
  • A global override applies one mode to every object at once
• Export to various formats
  • STL
  • STEP

Documentation

Documentation is available in the wiki. Topics covered are the following.

• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration

Getting Help

For general questions and discussion about CQ-editor, please create a GitHub Discussion.

Reporting a Bug

If you believe that you have found a bug in CQ-editor, please ensure the following.

• You are not running a CQ-editor fork, as these are not always synchronized with the latest updates in this project.
• You have searched the issue tracker to make sure that the bug is not already known.

If you have already checked those things, please file a new issue with the following information.

• Operating System (type, version, etc) - If running Linux, please include the distribution and the version.
• How CQ-editor was installed.
• Python version of your environment (unless you are running a pre-built package).
• Steps to reproduce the bug.