Re: python CAD libraries?
I know this is an old post, but I wanted to recommend another Python CAD library called Pascale: https://aerion-tech.com/pascale It creates commercial grade CAD geometry through an intuitive Python API. Although it is a paid software, but there is a free version available to use on the Cloud. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jayden jayden.s...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, September 10, 2012 5:30:08 PM UTC-4, Gary Herron wrote: On 09/10/2012 02:10 PM, Jayden wrote: Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting I've used maya(I think that was the name), and matplotlib, but Blender.org(open source) is great for 3d rendering/game engine, etc, and has a nice python API, with great tutorials everywhere. If you checkout my homepage in my sig, you can see a roughdraft of somethings I was working on for it. I'd say go with an earlier version(more tuts/examples), but they put them out pretty quick, so 2.6 my be best to start with, and it uses python 3.x. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! Try PythonCAD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncad/ (Google would have been faster. :-) ) Gary Herron -- Dr. Gary Herron Department of Computer Science DigiPen Institute of Technology (425) 895-4418 Thank you. But this is for 2D. 3-d is just manipulating what's shown in x/y points(and not as easy as it sounds) . I went with cartesian coordinate, a 360x360 canvas(with 90x90 degree view port), and a little trig for front/back/left/right/up/down, and amplitude or z distance for my first attempt, and now porting it into the Blender game engine. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
I've used maya(I think that was the name), and matplotlib, but Blender.org(open source) is great for 3d rendering/game engine, etc, and has a nice python API, with great tutorials everywhere. If you checkout my homepage in my sig, you can see a roughdraft of somethings I was working on for it. I'd say go with an earlier version(more tuts/examples), but they put them out pretty quick, so 2.6 my be best to start with, and it uses python 3.x. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jayden jayden.s...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list 've used maya(I think that was the name), and matplotlib, but Blender.org(open source) is great for 3d rendering/game engine, etc, and has a nice python API, with great tutorials everywhere. If you checkout my homepage in my sig, you can see a roughdraft of somethings I was working on for it. I'd say go with an earlier version(more tuts/examples), but they put them out pretty quick, so 2.6 my be best to start with, and it uses python 3.x. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Thank you. But this is for 2D. Thank you. But this is for 2D. 3-d is just manipulating what's shown in x/y points(and not as easy as it sounds) . I went with cartesian coordinate, a 360x360 canvas(with 90x90 degree view port), and a little trig for front/back/left/right/up/down, and amplitude or z distance for my first attempt, with a few others that locked a center of an object,and held point rotation, and now porting it into the Blender game engine. I've used maya(I think that was the name), and matplotlib, but Blender.org(open source) is great for 3d rendering/game engine, etc, and has a nice python API, with great tutorials everywhere. If you checkout my homepage in my sig, you can see a roughdraft of somethings I was working on for it. I'd say go with an earlier version(more tuts/examples), but they put them out pretty quick, so 2.6 my be best to start with, and it uses python 3.x. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
Thank you. But this is for 2D. 3-d is just manipulating what's shown in x/y points(and not as easy as it sounds) . I went with cartesian coordinate, a 360x360 canvas(with 90x90 degree view port), and a little trig for front/back/left/right/up/down, and amplitude or z distance for my first attempt, and now porting it into the Blender game engine. I've used maya(I think that was the name), and matplotlib, but Blender.org(open source) is great for 3d rendering/game engine, etc, and has a nice python API, with great tutorials everywhere. If you checkout my homepage in my sig, you can see a roughdraft of somethings I was working on for it. I'd say go with an earlier version(more tuts/examples), but they put them out pretty quick, so 2.6 my be best to start with, and it uses python 3.x. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Might have posted that too many times, I don't use the google groups that much. Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Apologies for the multiple posts, it's been a long night, and I don't use the google groups that much I kept getting sent mail failure, I think because I didn't hit 'reply all'. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Apologies for the double posting. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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https://www.google.com/search?q=python+cad+3d+examplesie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a First listing looks good, might look later on at it myself: http://www.pythonocc.org/ -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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And just a little more for you from: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Applications#A3D_CAD.2FCAM This looked interesting: http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/ but I have to get to a few other things, so I hope this helps. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Blender is definitely the most popular open-source CAD software; it has even forked its own version of Python to make things run neatly :P On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Dwight Hutto dwightdhu...@gmail.com wrote: And just a little more for you from: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Applications#A3D_CAD.2FCAM This looked interesting: http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/ but I have to get to a few other things, so I hope this helps. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Alec Taylor alec.tayl...@gmail.com wrote: Blender is definitely the most popular open-source CAD software; it has even forked its own version of Python to make things run neatly :P I heard that they were going to change a few things a while back with the Python API(especially the switch to 3.0 in blender 2.5), but thought they were still using regular 3.x. I've been using the 2.49b, and just started using 2.6.2 when I upgraded my Ubuntu to 12.04. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
Blender is definitely the most popular open-source CAD software; it has even forked its own version of Python to make things run neatly :P Plus it never hurts to look around at some of the other interfaces,some of which might have just altered Blender, or something else, just to see which is more user friendly for the individual. But I am a huge Blender fan, so I'll probably not be changing that anytime soon. -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On Monday, September 10, 2012 11:10:55 PM UTC+2, Jayden wrote: Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! Hi Jayden, In my opinion, the best you can get is OpenCascade (OCC) (www.opencascade.org) in combination with the python bindings (www.pythonocc.org). OCC is a hugh C++ CAD library. It not only deals with the simple geometric stuff, but it can be used to build CAD programs similar to SolidEdge or SolidWorks. It does however come with quite a steep learning curve. When using PythonOCC, the learning curve becomes a little less steep. Also note that in my opinion, Blender cannot be considered as a CAD environment. Ofcourse it is very powerful, but I think it is more targeted towards animation and visually pleasing applications, not mechanical engineering. Regards, Marco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:42:56 AM UTC-4, Marco Nawijn wrote: On Monday, September 10, 2012 11:10:55 PM UTC+2, Jayden wrote: Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! Hi Jayden, In my opinion, the best you can get is OpenCascade (OCC) (www.opencascade.org) in combination with the python bindings (www.pythonocc.org). OCC is a hugh C++ CAD library. It not only deals with the simple geometric stuff, but it can be used to build CAD programs similar to SolidEdge or SolidWorks. It does however come with quite a steep learning curve. When using PythonOCC, the learning curve becomes a little less steep. Also note that in my opinion, Blender cannot be considered as a CAD environment. Ofcourse it is very powerful, but I think it is more targeted towards animation and visually pleasing applications, not mechanical engineering. Regards, Marco Hi, Marco, Thank you so much! This is what I exactly want. But I am a little concerned about its steep learning curve. Is it really hard to learn pythonOCC? Averagely, how long does it take to begin to program some practical code? Do you have any good advice for me to learn it? I deeply appreciate your kind help!! Best regards, Jayden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 02:40:55 UTC+5:30, Jayden wrote: Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! You could use Blender. It has support for Python 3 (I don't know whether it has support for Python 2) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Hi, Marco, Thank you so much! This is what I exactly want. But I am a little concerned about its steep learning curve. Is it really hard to learn pythonOCC? Averagely, how long does it take to begin to program some practical code? Do you have any good advice for me to learn it? I deeply appreciate your kind help!! Best regards, Jayden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Hey Jayden, You gotta learn to use the google searches buddy, although sometimes a good conversation can help: I found this under search term 'pythonOCC example code' http://code.google.com/p/pythonocc-examples/ and a converted pdf manual from quickview. You can download the pdf by typing in the above search term, and going straight to the main link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vq=cache:iu53RJFs1XEJ:https://pythonocc.googlecode.com/svn-history/r999/trunk/doc/tutorials/geometry_modeling_and_visualization/LATEX_src/VisualizationOfGeometryWithUtilisingpythonOCC.pdf+hl=engl=uspid=blsrcid=ADGEESgHGUGqRqXy6Z9MKCgIIh19JfY9_BYl_xw5tQODTx1N8Hqb3CPU_oruG2LKpNhbfnrEgKEvLTyJHvfOymsHcNSMAQ7WoAa_SW-Bdg33WKVmtoD7dvEtajyqv4KMQuMLgv-NT_omsig=AHIEtbSGCtWIUBBiFSsELS1AregIpXUVjApli=1 -- Best Regards, David Hutto *CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
python CAD libraries?
Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
On 09/10/2012 02:10 PM, Jayden wrote: Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! Try PythonCAD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncad/ (Google would have been faster. :-) ) Gary Herron -- Dr. Gary Herron Department of Computer Science DigiPen Institute of Technology (425) 895-4418 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python CAD libraries?
On Monday, September 10, 2012 5:30:08 PM UTC-4, Gary Herron wrote: On 09/10/2012 02:10 PM, Jayden wrote: Are there any python CAD libraries that can (1) build simple 3D primitives solids such as spheres, cylinders and so on (2) perform bool operations on 3D solids (3) better if it has some transformations such has scaling, sweeping, and lofting Please recommend some good ones for me? Thanks a lot!! Try PythonCAD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncad/ (Google would have been faster. :-) ) Gary Herron -- Dr. Gary Herron Department of Computer Science DigiPen Institute of Technology (425) 895-4418 Thank you. But this is for 2D. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
