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

• OCCT based
• 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
• Export to various formats
  • STL
  • STEP

Use conda to install:

conda install -c cadquery -c conda-forge cq-editor=master

and then simply type cq-editor to run it. This installs the latest version built directly from the HEAD of this repository.

Alternatively clone this git repository and set up the following conda environment:

conda env create -f cqgui_env.yml -n cqgui
conda activate cqgui
python run.py

On some linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04) it might be necessary to install additonal packages:

sudo apt install libglu1-mesa libgl1-mesa-dri mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

On Fedora 29 the packages can be installed as follows:

dnf install -y mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU-devel

By default, CQ-editor will display a 3D representation of all Workplane objects in a script with a default color and alpha (transparency). To have more control over what is shown, and what the color and alpha settings are, the show_object method can be used. show_object tells CQ-editor to explicity display an object, and accepts the options parameter. The options parameter is a dictionary of rendering options named alpha and color. alpha is scaled between 0.0 and 1.0, with 0.0 being completely opaque and 1.0 being completely transparent. The color is set using R (red), G (green) and B (blue) values, and each one is scaled from 0 to 255. Either option or both can be omitted.

show_object(result, options={"alpha":0.5, "color": (64, 164, 223)})

Note that show_object works for Shape and TopoDS_Shape objects too. In order to display objects from the embedded Python console use show.