ZenCad

CAD system for righteous zen programmers

Status:
- master
- dev

What is it?

ZenCad - it's a system for use oce geometry core in openscad's script style. So, it's openscad idea, python language and opencascade power in one.

Manual and Information

• Manual: You can find manual here. Now only russian version.
• Articles:
  • habr: Система скриптового 3д моделирования ZenCad

Installation

Install zencad from pypi:
python3 -m pip install zencad

Maybe need install qt5-default, because pyqt5 has trouble with xcb plugin.
apt install qt5-default

For Windows:

Windows version of ZenCad needed vcredist (Microsoft Redistibutable Package).
Please, install vcredist 2015 for Python3.7 and also vcredist 2019 for Python3.8

Standalone Distribution

ZenCad have standalone version for Windows.
You can find windows prerelease version in releases.

Source code

Main project repo: https://github.com/mirmik/zencad
Related repos:
https://github.com/mirmik/servoce
https://github.com/mirmik/evalcache

Source code structure:

• ./zencad/ (package)
  • examples/ (gui`s example scripts)
  • gui/ (application and graphical interface code files)
  • geom/ (main zencad api functions)
  • . : other or not yet sorted....
• ./docs/ (manual directory. GitHub pages links here)
• ./mangen/ (scripts and texts for ./docs automated generation)
• ./utest/ (unit tests)
• ./tools/ (scripts for repository routine work)
• ./expers/ (place for maintainer experiments :-) )

HelloWorld

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#coding: utf-8

from zencad import *

model = box(200, center = True) - sphere(120) + sphere(60)

display(m)
show()

Result: