"Free Function API for CadQuery" ( 2025 )

Sunday at 09:20, 30 minutes, H.1309 (Van Rijn), H.1309 (Van Rijn), Open Hardware and CAD/CAM Adam Urbanczyk , slides , video

CadQuery (CQ) is a scripted CAD Python library built on the OCCT kernel. The upcoming 2.5 CQ release will contain a free function API that is completely stateless and as-such addresses many existing usability constraints. It is more suited for advanced modeling use cases, less imposing on the user and allows to build custom abstraction layers easily. I will present its design and demonstrate its capabilities with some examples. Moreover, I will give an update other new functionalities, upcoming plans of integrating meshing tools with CQ and show some real life applications.