RoadMap: Planned Features¶
CadQuery is not even close to finished!!!
Many features are planned for later versions. This page tracks them. If you find that you need features not listed here, let us know!
Core¶
- end(n)
allows moving backwards a fixed number of parents in the chain, eg end(3) is same as end().end().end()
- Improved iteration tools for plugin developers
make it easier to iterate over points and wires for plugins
More parameter types ( String? )
- face.outerWire
allow selecting the outerWire of a face, so that it can be used for reference geometry or offsets
Selectors¶
- tagged entities
support tagging entities when they are created, so they can be selected later on using that tag. ideally, tags are propagated to features that are created from these features ( ie, an edge tagged with ‘foo’ that is later extruded into a face means that face would be tagged with ‘foo’ as well )
Workplanes¶
- rotated workplanes
support creation of workplanes at an angle to another plane or face
- workplane local rotations
rotate the coordinate system of a workplane by an angle.
- make a workplane from a wire
useful to select outer wire and then operate from there, to allow offsets
2-d operations¶
- offsets
offset profiles, including circles, rects, and other profiles.
- ellipses
create ellipses and portions of ellipses
- regular polygons
- several construction methods:
number of sides and side length
number of sides inscribed in circle
number of sides circumscribed by circle
- arc construction using relative measures
instead of forcing use of absolute workplane coordinates
- tangent arcs
after a line
- centerpoint arcs
including portions of arcs as well as with end points specified
- trimming
ability to use construction geometry to trim other entities
- construction lines
especially centerlines
- 2-d fillets
for a rectangle, or for consecutive selected lines
- 2-d chamfers
based on rectangles, polygons, polylines, or adjacent selected lines
- mirror around centerline
using centerline construction geometry
- midpoint selection
select midpoints of lines, arcs
- face center
explicit selection of face center
- manipulate spline control points
so that the shape of a spline can be more accurately controlled
- feature snap
project geometry in the rest of the part into the work plane, so that they can be selected and used as references for other features.
- polyline edges
allow polyline to be combined with other edges/curves
3-d operations¶
- rotation/transform that return a copy
The current rotateAboutCenter and translate method modify the object, rather than returning a copy
- primitive creation
- Need primitive creation for:
cone
cylinder
torus
wedge
- extrude/cut up to surface
allow a cut or extrude to terminate at another surface, rather than either through all or a fixed distance
Algorithms¶
- Wire Discretization
Sample wires at point interval to improve closet wire computations