CadQuery / CadQuery/cadquery

Create a compelling, online-only CQ 2.0 experience

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When we moved cadquery from to its new home, we lost a lot of stars. But the good news is that we have more to offer-- we just have to get people excited.

I believe the most important thing we can do is to provide an online (no-install) solution, which lets people try cq via a hosted GUI. This GUI should allow people to try it with no work, play with samples, and (ideally) pull in all of the libraries in the eco-system ( cqparts, cadquery-contrib).

The result should be fire-up-your browser, and run any of the samples in cadquery-contrib, or cqparts.

I believe the closest we had to his is tryQA, based on jupyter. It was cool, but it was too slow.

I believe the 'right' direction long-term is to build a javascript-based frontend and a server backend, and then deploy that on a hosted platform. With these two components, we can then make native apps for all the important platforms using electron/nativify, while using the same GUI code to support hosted installations AND native. We could even have a mobile app, and the ability for others to easily host.

I'm not long on time, but i'm willing to contribute capital. If we find a solution that works, but just needs a small amount of $ per month for servers, i will do that.

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