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.. _roadmap:
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RoadMap: Planned Features
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**CadQuery is not even close to finished!!!**
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Many features are planned for later versions. This page tracks them. If you find that you need features
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not listed here, let us know!
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Core
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end(n)
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allows moving backwards a fixed number of parents in the chain, eg end(3) is same as end().end().end()
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Improved iteration tools for plugin developers
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make it easier to iterate over points and wires for plugins
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More parameter types ( String? )
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face.outerWire
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allow selecting the outerWire of a face, so that it can be used for reference geometry or offsets
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Selectors
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tagged entities
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support tagging entities when they are created, so they can be selected later on using that tag.
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ideally, tags are propagated to features that are created from these features ( ie, an edge tagged with 'foo'
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that is later extruded into a face means that face would be tagged with 'foo' as well )
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Workplanes
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rotated workplanes
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support creation of workplanes at an angle to another plane or face
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workplane local rotations
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rotate the coordinate system of a workplane by an angle.
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make a workplane from a wire
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useful to select outer wire and then operate from there, to allow offsets
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2-d operations
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offsets
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offset profiles, including circles, rects, and other profiles.
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ellipses
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create ellipses and portions of ellipses
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regular polygons
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several construction methods:
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* number of sides and side length
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* number of sides inscribed in circle
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* number of sides circumscribed by circle
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arc construction using relative measures
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instead of forcing use of absolute workplane coordinates
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tangent arcs
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after a line
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centerpoint arcs
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including portions of arcs as well as with end points specified
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trimming
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ability to use construction geometry to trim other entities
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construction lines
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especially centerlines
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2-d fillets
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for a rectangle, or for consecutive selected lines
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2-d chamfers
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based on rectangles, polygons, polylines, or adjacent selected lines
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mirror around centerline
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using centerline construction geometry
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rectangular array
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automate creation of equally spread points
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polar array
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create equally spaced copies of a feature around a circle
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perhaps based on a construction circle?
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midpoint selection
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select midpoints of lines, arcs
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face center
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explicit selection of face center
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manipulate spline control points
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so that the shape of a spline can be more accurately controlled
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feature snap
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project geometry in the rest of the part into the work plane, so that
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they can be selected and used as references for other features.
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polyline edges
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allow polyline to be combined with other edges/curves
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create text
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ideally, in various fonts.
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3-d operations
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rotation/transform that return a copy
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The current rotateAboutCenter and translate method modify the object, rather than returning a copy
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primitive creation
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Need primitive creation for:
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* cone
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* sphere
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* cylinder
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* torus
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* wedge
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extrude/cut up to surface
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allow a cut or extrude to terminate at another surface, rather than either through all or a fixed distance
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extrude along a path
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rather than just normal to the plane. This would include
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STEP import
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allow embedding and importing step solids created in other tools, which
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can then be further manipulated parametrically
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Dome
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very difficult to do otherwise
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primitive boolean operations
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* intersect
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* union
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* subtract
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Algorithms
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Wire Discretization
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Sample wires at point interval to improve closet wire computations
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