CQ-editor

If you look at this and you think "wow, I love the idea of CAD-as-code but I wish it was a more sane language" then have a look at CadQuery: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#qu... (I recommend CQ-editor for an easy install: https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/releases/) It's a similar idea to OpenSCAD, but embedded in Python and using a better geometry kernel. Want to fillet a box in OpenSCAD? Sure, either take the convex hull of 8 spheres, or the minkowski sum of a box and a sphere. Want to fillet a box in CadQuery? .edges().fillet() Now I'm hearing some protests about Python, but consider this example OpenSCAD code: x = 1; echo(x); x = 2; In most languages you would expect this to print "1". In OpenSCAD, the last assignment wins and it prints "2".

I had some good results using CadQuery [1] with CQ-editor [2] for visualization driven by Claude Code enhanced by a cadquery-llm-skill [3]. I didn't make anything too complicated, just cases for various ESP32 projects I am tinkering with, but that was very easy just describing what I want and iterating and refining until I am satisfied. It was much easier than doing it manually in FreeCAD and more dynamic as the changes were cheap and not tedious to do. [1] https://github.com/cadquery/cadquery [2] https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor [3] https://github.com/jmwright/cadquery-llm-skill