OCP CAD Viewer for VS Code

OCP CAD Viewer for VS Code is an extension to show CadQuery and build123d objects in VS Code via three-cad-viewer

Installation

Prerequisites

• A fairly recent version of VS Code, e.g. 1.76.0 or newer
• Python extension installed in VS Code
• Python and pip available in the Python enviroment that will be used for CAD development (with conda the minimum is conda create -n ocp python=3.9)

Steps:

• Open the VS Code Marketplace, and search and install OCP CAD Viewer 1.0.0.

  Afterwards the OCP viewer is available in the VS Code sidebar:

  

• Install ocp_vscode via the blue button in the welcome screen of the "Viewer Manager" or by pressing the green down-arrow in the "Library Manager" section of the OCP CAD Viewer sidebar

  

  Afterwards, the "Viewer Manager" and the "Library Manager" show the loaded libraries:

  

• Additionally, you can use the OCP CAD Viewer sidebar to manage the Python libraries for build123d, cadquery, ipython and ocp_tessellate

  • Install the needed library by pressing the green down-arrow behind the library name in the "Library Manager" section of the OCP CAD Viewer sidebar

  More details, see here

Usage

Using with VS Code Run menu

• Start the OCP CAD Viewer by pressing the green box-arrow button in the "Viewer Manager" section of the OCP CAD Viewer sidebar
• Import ocp_vscode and the CAD library by using the paste button behing the library names in the "Viewer Manager" section
• Use the usual Run menu to run the code

Extra topics

• Use the ipython extension
• Use the show command
• Use the show_object command
• Download examples for build123d or cadquery
• Use the build123d snippets