What is the status and future of the FreeCAD CadQuery Workbench?
I get the impression that CadQuery originally used the FreeCAD API to display Objects but from CQ 2.0 it uses PythonOCC
and therefore the latest version does not work under FreeCAD, Is this a correct understanding
Status of CadQuery Workbench.
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Re: Status of CadQuery Workbench.
good question
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Re: Status of CadQuery Workbench.
I remember there was a thread that mentioned what you say.
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Re: Status of CadQuery Workbench.
There are now 3 different python wrapper libs for occt: pythonocc (swig), pyocct (pybind11) and a new one https://github.com/CadQuery/pywrap .
It seems like pythonocc will release a 7.4 release soon. So in theory it should be possible to use cadquery with pythonocc7.4 in freecad. Not sure about the freecad backend in cadquery. I guess they want to move away from freecad api because it's not really reliable. I once posted the workaround how to import freecad for several plattforms. It's a total mess, while it should be "import freecad"...
It seems like pythonocc will release a 7.4 release soon. So in theory it should be possible to use cadquery with pythonocc7.4 in freecad. Not sure about the freecad backend in cadquery. I guess they want to move away from freecad api because it's not really reliable. I once posted the workaround how to import freecad for several plattforms. It's a total mess, while it should be "import freecad"...