Typos, wrong API use, ... will just be hidden behind the cadquery server.
Can this be surfaced in some VS Code output model?

I have installed CadQuery locally and then I get great code completion and syntax help on hovering.
See bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery#78

For example, when I type:
obj = cq.Workplane('front').box(1,2,3)
the code completion works well. But when adding more dots, such as :
obj = cq.Workplane('front').box(1,2,3).faces('>Z').workplane().hole(0.2)
all the following up methods can not activate code completion.

I am using VSCode v1.71.1 on Windows 10 1809 LTSC, and this plugin is of version 0.1.3 which is the latest.

By the way, I only use this plugin as a CADQuery code completion plugin in VSCode for easily writing .py file. The 3D object is simutaniously being rendered in CQ-Editor by Autoreload function.

The installation says: source venv/bin/activate, but there is no "source" command on Windows and the path separator is a ''

On a Mac port 5000 is used and I don't want to turn the respective service off.
And sometimes I'd like to also control the host variable. 0.0.0.0 is pretty broad.
So support for cq-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 4999 or cq-server -h 0.0.0.0 -p 4999 would be highly appreciated.

The next Jupyter-Cadquery will come with multiprocessing support for large assemblies.
This doesn't work well with flask. I made it run by forcing imports (initializing multiprocessng) being done after start of flask:

import cadquery

from flask import Flask, request


app = Flask(__name__)
json_result = "[{}, {}]"


def show(model):
    global json_result

    from jupyter_cadquery.utils import numpy_to_json
    from jupyter_cadquery.cad_objects import to_assembly
    from jupyter_cadquery.base import _tessellate_group

    json_result = numpy_to_json(_tessellate_group(to_assembly(model)))


@app.route("/", methods=["GET", "POST"])
def root():
    if request.method == "GET":
        return "Please send a CadQuery Python script in a POST request.\n"
    elif request.method == "POST":
        exec(request.get_data().decode())
        return json_result


def run():
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=4999, debug=False)

Is this something you could change?

On bigger screens, all menu items easily fit onto the screen.
Would be great if the extension would check the cad view width and decide to hide elements or not

This project is going to be replaced by cadquery-server: https://github.com/roipoussiere/cadquery-server

It can be used with VSCode and have many useful features, please give a try. :)

Before

Then I move the CAD tab:

So the bottom view is empty now
If I save again, it appears:

While the cad adapts to the size of the tab, the objects camera view is sub optimal. Maybe you could reset the camera?
Can be done by calling viewer.reset().

Hello, I've tried your extension on Windows and when I want to open the viewer I get this error msg :
Une erreur système s'est produite (ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/c:/Users/Romain/.vscode/extensions/roipoussiere.cadquery-0.1.2/static/cq-viewer.html')

The problem is due to the first slash before the c:/, the file is actually in the right location, the path is just corrupted due to the linux slash used here.

Hi roipoussiere

I have been using OpenSCAD in VSCodium for a while now, however, as my models become more complex, I am running into performance issues, so I decided to give CadQuery a whirl. I followed your instructions provided and when I tried to start cq-server from the terminal it would not start...

As my programming skills are wildly dangerous at best, I am unsure how to proceed. I have thought of following the installation instructions on the CadQuery2 wiki, but would prefer to use VSCodium and preview my files there. I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Tablet running Fedora 36, Gnome 42, Python 3.10.5 and the latest version of VSCodium. I deleted the venv folder and retried in case I had messed something up. I know that Fedora 36 changed some of the site package installation directories, but I assumed the virtual environment thing would avoid any issues.

Any help resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Dorian

exec fails with simple (an natural) approaches:

import cadquery as cq

l = 1
w = 2
h = 3

def box():
    return cq.Workplane().box(l, w, h).edges().fillet(0.1)

show(box())

fails with

  File "<string>", line 9, in box
NameError: name 'cq' is not defined

So let's change it (just for the test, I would never program like that):

l = 1
w = 2
h = 3


def box():
    import cadquery as cq

    return cq.Workplane().box(l, w, h).edges().fillet(0.1)


show(box())

Now, this fails with

  File "<string>", line 9, in box
NameError: name 'l' is not defined

exec just doesn't play well with global variables

Of course, this works:

def box(l=1, w=2, h=3):
    import cadquery as cq

    return cq.Workplane().box(l, w, h).edges().fillet(0.1)

show(box())

However I would need to adapt my style of coding - especially for quick hacks - to the limitations of exec.

Maybe there is a more robust way?

Hi ,
first i am very new to CAD so excuse my bug report if i made something wrong....

import cadquery as cq

res = cq.Workplane("front").box(50, 50, 50)

res = res + cq.Workplane("front").text("Front", 8, 26)
res = res + cq.Workplane("back").text("Back", 8, 26)
res = res + cq.Workplane("top").text("Top", 8, 26)
res = res + cq.Workplane("bottom").text("Bottom", 8, 26)
res = res + cq.Workplane("left").text("Left", 8, 26)
res = res + cq.Workplane("right").text("Right", 8, 26)

res = res.rotate((0, 0, 0), (1, 0, 0), 90) # Rotates the object 90 degree down so it works without touching in Cura Slicer and Super Slicer
cq.exporters.export(res, "test.step")
cq.exporters.export(res, "test.stl")
res = res.rotate((0, 0, 0), (1, 0, 180), 90)
show(res)

The rotate before exporting step and stl is required so it is aligned with 3d printer slicers.

The rotate before the show is required so i dont have to use the mouse to view to click on it.... so it looks good...

This puts everything in a good perspective....

The only problem is the LEFT/RIGHT are opposing.... (TOP, BOTTOM, FRONT, BACK are working correctly)

After closing the VS Code tab with the CAD view, one cannot open it again. An error appears: