Visualization options#

The reactors (cadquery.Assembly objects) and components (cadquery.Workplane objects) can be visualized in a number of ways. First option is to export them to STEP, BREP or STL file then open the file with your favorite CAD software for example FreeCAD. See the CadQuery documentation on saving for more information. Other options include the built in visualization tools in CadQuery

from cadquery.vis import show
show(result)  # where result is the returned reactor or component object

Jupyter_cadquery package can be installed (pip install jupyter-cadquery) which allows for interactive 3D visualization in a web browser. This package can also be used to export portable html files with the 3D visualization.

# pip install jupyter_cadquery
# might needed to downgrade pip with ... python -m pip  install pip==24.0
from jupyter_cadquery import show
view = show(result)  # where result is the returned reactor or component object
view.export_html("3d.html")
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