Cadquery vs OpenSCAD

[Jesper Lindeberg]

Hey

is there a compare sheet of openscad functions vs cadquery?

F.ex i use these in openscad alot.

OpenSCAD -> Cadquery

Difference -> maybe cut

Scale -> ??

Ellipse (scale circle) -> 

Hull -> maybe loft? but loft is in 2D space?

module -> def module?

translate -> center?

Thanks...

Be welcome to come with more examples

And I really think alot of old openscad people like me, would like to play with cadquery if there was a crash guide / compare sheet

[Jeremy Wright]

This is the closest thing we have to a comparison sheet: http://dcowden.github.io/cadquery/intro.html#why-cadquery-instead-of-openscad

The "Quick Links" section here holds probably the best resources for getting started quickly: http://dcowden.github.io/cadquery/index.html#quick-links

Do those help? Should there be a "Are you an OpenSCAD user" section in the docs?

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[Dave Cowden]

That's a great idea to create a cross reference!

I don't know OpenSCAD at all, so it is difficult for me to do it. Do you think you could make the complete OpenSCAD side and we can complete the other side?

There will be some things gaps, and those gaps are useful too. For example, cadquery can't import a dxf into a 2d sketch (yet) , but cq is a full programming language so arbitrary scripts are possible, not so in openscad.

The biggest difference between the two is that openscad is mostly a csg modeler minset, while cq is a brep mindset. Users of the common brep cad packages like solidworks or onShape  will be much more comfortable with cq syntax

At any rate a comparison is a great idea, if you can help let's do it

On Dec 28, 2015 3:21 AM, "Jesper Lindeberg" <jlind...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Jesper Lindeberg]

Maybe you can use this as a reference http://www.openscad.org/cheatsheet/index.html 

[Dave Cowden]

yep, we could start with that. Here's the equivalent CQ cheat sheet:

http://dcowden.github.io/cadquery/_static/cadquery_cheatsheet.html

you may also find this quickstart guide useful:

http://dcowden.github.io/cadquery/quickstart.html

also, these examples show a lot of the features:

http://dcowden.github.io/cadquery/examples.html

as a curious and interesting side note-- because CQ is python, we can  do some cool integrations. the pictures in the examples come from actually executing the code for each example. so we know for sure they actually work.

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