Human readable custom parts

[openvmp]

Human readable custom parts

[openvmp]

It would actually be nice if CadQuery is used to generate the part design instead of OpenSCAD. Both would require some changes in the 'Bill-of-Material' library to support new type in part.json.
Please, note, it's important to have an intermediate 2D artifact so that DXF can be generated.

1. CadQuery option

The changes for CadQuery would be similar to the code found in get_assembly.

2. OpenSCAD option

The changes for OpenSCAD may got next to if part["type"] == "step" but the code will be a bit more complex given no native support for importing OpenSCAD in CadQuery. Alternatively, a preprocessing step could be added into the part rendering process (parts/render.py) which will generate the STEP file from whatever the source file is.

[openvmp]

Let me add some clarification.

One way to implement these custom parts is by implementing them in pure CaqQuery code.
There is now a good example: https://github.com/openvmp/openvmp-models/blob/main/robots/don1/assembly_wormgear.py
So such custom parts would be defined in separate files next to assembly_wormgear.py, and loaded into the corresponding links in the same way.

The other way is to maintain the blueprints of the custom parts next to all other parts in the parts folder.
However instead of using type: "step" in part.json, use part: "openscad".
That will require an extension to the bom.py library to be able to load OpenSCAD files in a way similar to the way it loads STEP files now.