Where are the plugins?

[Martin Rauscher]

Hello,

I recently discovered CadQuery (coming from OpenSCAD) and it's really nice to finally be able to use a real programming language.

What I'm missing from OpenSCAD are the many libraries, e.g. for DIN screws, plugs, etc. I read that CadQuery supports plugins but not a link to a single one and Google didn't turn up one either.

Is a plugin collection available somewhere? (Maybe have a separate "awesome-querycad-plugins" repo in the GitHub org)

Cheers,

Martin

[Jeremy Wright]

Ithe plugin system is normally used inside someone's script when they're creating a more complex object and want to use it at multiple locations on one or more workplanes. There are no plugin collections that have been shared within the community that I'm aware of.

There is cq-kit, which extends the functionality of CadQuery, but is probably not what you're looking since you want things like screw plugins: https://github.com/michaelgale/cq-kit

[Adam Urbanczyk]

Also note that CQ can import STEP files which means that you can use Misumi, McMaster, traceparts etc to get a STEP of any standard part.

[Dave Cowden]

it might be a really cool project to automate pulling in STEP from the usual suspects like mcmaster and traceparts. ability to pull in a part and then orient/mate into an assembly would be a KILLER feature. 

  

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[Adam Urbanczyk]

If anyone is interested traceparts seems to provide an API (request for access is needed):

https://info.traceparts.com/developers/request-api-key/

Some example code:

https://github.com/stnoah1/mcb/blob/master/scrapper/trace_parts.py