CadQuery Scripts and Object Output

CadQuery scripts are pure Python scripts, that may follow a few conventions.

If you are using CadQuery as a library, there are no constraints.

If you are using CadQuery scripts inside of a CadQuery execution environment like CQ-editor, there are a few conventions you need to be aware of:

• cadquery is usually imported as ‘cq’ at the top of a script

• to return an object to the execution environment (like CQ-editor) for rendering, you need to call the show_object() method

Each script generally has three sections:

• Variable Assignments and metadata definitions

• CadQuery and other Python code

• object export or rendering, via the show_object() function

see the The CadQuery Gateway Interface section for more details.