Jeremy Wright @jmwright@makerdon.org

@sexybenfranklin I've used PyCharm quite a bit, but haven't tried to install packages with it. There's a cadquery=2 component that I think is needed, shown here: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/blob/master/README.md#getting-started

If you set CQ-editor up to use an external editor you can use PyCharm to edit the CadQuery script, than open the same script in CQ-editor and it will just display the updated model when the CadQuery script changes.

@sexybenfranklin What errors do you get? Probably the easiest way to get started with 2.0 is with the pre-built version of CQ-editor. You can set it up to use an external editor and set automatic reloads and just use it as a viewer. https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/releases/tag/0.1RC1 (expand the Assets drop down and download the right one for your platform).

@sexybenfranklin Glad to hear it. Just in case you haven't seen it, the newest version is in a new repo here: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery

We set up a GitHub org when we made the changes for 2.0. I need to update the link in my profile.

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