PythonScad

• https://github.com/nickc92/ViewSCAD
• https://github.com/SolidCode/SolidPython
• https://pypi.org/project/openpyscad/

ViewSCAD

Installation

• Install OpenSCAD
• Install viewscad

  pip install viewscad
  

• Install jupyterlab

  pip install jupyterlab
  

  see https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/installation.html

On MacOS

create script $HOME/openscad

#!/bin/bash
# call OpenSCAD command line
/Applications/OpenSCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSCAD $@

check version

openscad -v
OpenSCAD version 2021.01
npm --version
8.8.0
jupyter labextension list
JupyterLab v3.4.7
/Users/wf/Library/Python/3.10/share/jupyter/labextensions
        jupyter-threejs v2.4.0 enabled OK (python, pythreejs)
        jupyterlab-datawidgets v7.1.2 enabled OK
        jupyterlab_pygments v0.2.2 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab_pygments)
        @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager v5.0.3 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab_widgets)

Other labextensions (built into JupyterLab)
   app dir: /Users/wf/Library/Python/3.10/share/jupyter/lab

start

jupyter lab

Example

# cell 1
from solid import *
import viewscad
r=viewscad.Renderer()
# cell 2
c=cylinder(r=5,h=2)
c-=minkowski()(translate([0,0,1]) (cylinder(r=3,h=1.5)),sphere(r=0.2))
c-=cylinder(r=1,h=3,center=True)
c-=translate([0,-1,0]) (cube([6,2,3]))
r.render(c)