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CadQuery should be better as it is using the OpenCASCADE cad kernel (same as FreeCAD) instead of a simplistic ad-hoc thingy.

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I honestly think CadQuery has more promise as a way to get open source 3D components and modules to the mainstream, because it's fundamentally code, and can be reasoned about as such (diffed, merged, blamed, parameterised, modularised, reused and tested). Putting SolidWorks or FreeCad file into source control is a very different thing.

Also, as it's natively Python, you have all sorts of library support, up to and including things like numpy.

On the other hand, sketching with constraints is very intuitive. Making interesting shapes that aren't trivial CSG demos by fiddling with code just doesn't sound that great.

The future dream mCAD for me is something where extrusions and fillets and other 3d stuff is code, but sketches are GUI edited.

Thanks for pointing this out! Looks pretty useful, will give it a shot.

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