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OCCT 8.0 (aka Open Cascade Technology) is out! It's the CAD kernel used by many projects such as @freecad, #CadQuery , #build123d or even @kicad ! It has wrappers for STEP and IGES and can use BRep topology representation. A very important open source tool for the hardware world!

➡️ https://occt3d.com/occt3d-open-source-8-0-is-released

#occt #occt3d #opencascade #cad #FreeCAD #OpenSource

Here's the first print of the handle and plate!

#LynxMouse #oshw #opensource #hardware #input #mouse #cadquery

Getting closer! Now there's triggers and back/forward buttons as well. Now reworking the main PCB to use an external antenna, and to actually support a battery. (difficult to have a wireless device without a battery...)

#oshw #mouse #opensource #hardware #input #nrf52 #cadquery #kicad

I have released version 0.9 of `cq-studio`, my hot-reloading server for using the excellent #YACV viewer to interact with models you build in #CadQuery (or #build123d) with #Python code, programmatically. It lets you edit your model code module(s) in any editor/IDE you like, and the models are re-rendered whenever changes to your files are saved.

https://pypi.org/project/cq-studio/

You can install it with just `pipx install cq-studio`. If you've never used pipx before, it requires a tiny amount of setup to add the programs it installs to your file search PATH environment variable.

CadQuery is an alternative to the perhaps better-known OpenSCAD package. CadQuery uses a more advanced CAD kernel than OpenSCAD, but they both have their uses.

#CQStudio #CAD #CAD3D #modelling #SolidModelling #model #programmatic #HotReload #OpenSCAD #PyOpenScad