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Templot is Martin's fun hobby project.
**Completely separate from Templot and is a personal project**
I want to build a simplified way of generating detailed CAD models for my own use but keep it open source under GPL3 v3 and help remove barriers to 3d printing or indeed open new gateways.
This is what I had in mind but using CadQuery, which is a Python library for building parametric 3D CAD models. The documentation describes it as “intuitive and easy-to-use,” and while I do think it’s quite straightforward, it’s not always as intuitive as it sounds. It is, however, great fun—especially when you use the free extension in VS Code.
CadQuery can be installed in a web application with a Python package manager; I used pip in a Django project (currently on hold while I experiment with the editor). I also considered a SQLite database for storing CadQuery data, letting users dynamically render objects from track component data via a web interface.
This would take me a good couple of months and I'd need to think how to deploy such a program without detrimental cost to myself.
Below is a screenshot of VS Code with the OCP extension enabled, knowledge of VS Code and how extensions work is required. In the picture below I'm developing a parametric baseboard (some tweaking required to the design) and plan to create other parametric models like platforms, canopies etc once I get the hang of it.
I want to build a simplified way of generating detailed CAD models for my own use but keep it open source under GPL3 v3 and help remove barriers to 3d printing or indeed open new gateways.
This is what I had in mind but using CadQuery, which is a Python library for building parametric 3D CAD models. The documentation describes it as “intuitive and easy-to-use,” and while I do think it’s quite straightforward, it’s not always as intuitive as it sounds. It is, however, great fun—especially when you use the free extension in VS Code.
CadQuery can be installed in a web application with a Python package manager; I used pip in a Django project (currently on hold while I experiment with the editor). I also considered a SQLite database for storing CadQuery data, letting users dynamically render objects from track component data via a web interface.
This would take me a good couple of months and I'd need to think how to deploy such a program without detrimental cost to myself.
Below is a screenshot of VS Code with the OCP extension enabled, knowledge of VS Code and how extensions work is required. In the picture below I'm developing a parametric baseboard (some tweaking required to the design) and plan to create other parametric models like platforms, canopies etc once I get the hang of it.
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