Tips & Tricks¶
Quick Start¶
Install host dependencies:
Todo
Link GH Issues where libcairo2-dev & libgl1-mesa-glx will become optional.
Install most recent version of PartCAD CLI:
Try it out:
Shell Completion¶
Warning
Currently invocation of pc tool is taking over a second, so completion will not be responsive.
You can enable shell completion for
pc CLI tool using one of the snippets below:
Known Problems¶
No matching distribution found for cadquery-ocp¶
Error
Info
Most likely this happens due to cadquery-ocp wheel is not compatible with available version of glibc.
Dependency "cairo" not found, tried pkgconfig¶
Error
vscode ➜ /workspaces/Winterfell (main) $ pip install --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ partcad-cli==0.7.50
...
Collecting pycairo>=1.20.0 (from rlPyCairo->partcad-cli==0.7.50)
Downloading pycairo-1.27.0.tar.gz (661 kB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 661.5/661.5 kB 28.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [49 lines of output]
+ meson setup /tmp/pip-install-t3prz8p9/pycairo_19c76b7a535d4ba3b506b636c5a2a8a4 /tmp/pip-install-t3prz8p9/pycairo_19c76b7a535d4ba3b506b636c5a2a8a4/.mesonpy-3qkl9ko7 -Dbuildtype=release -Db_ndebug=if-release -Db_vscrt=md -Dwheel=true -Dtests=false --native-file=/tmp/pip-install-t3prz8p9/pycairo_19c76b7a535d4ba3b506b636c5a2a8a4/.mesonpy-3qkl9ko7/meson-python-native-file.ini
The Meson build system
Version: 1.6.1
Source dir: /tmp/pip-install-t3prz8p9/pycairo_19c76b7a535d4ba3b506b636c5a2a8a4
Build dir: /tmp/pip-install-t3prz8p9/pycairo_19c76b7a535d4ba3b506b636c5a2a8a4/.mesonpy-3qkl9ko7
Build type: native build
Project name: pycairo
Project version: 1.27.0
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 12.2.0 "cc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.40
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Program python3 found: YES (/usr/local/bin/python3.12)
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wall: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Warray-bounds: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wcast-align: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wconversion: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wextra: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wformat=2: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wformat-nonliteral: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wformat-security: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wimplicit-function-declaration: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Winit-self: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Winline: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmissing-format-attribute: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmissing-noreturn: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wnested-externs: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wold-style-definition: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wpacked: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wpointer-arith: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wreturn-type: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wshadow: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wsign-compare: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wstrict-aliasing: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wundef: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wunused-but-set-variable: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wswitch-default: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-missing-field-initializers: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-unused-parameter: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-strict-aliasing: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -fvisibility=hidden: YES
Found pkg-config: YES (/usr/bin/pkg-config) 1.8.1
Did not find CMake 'cmake'
Found CMake: NO
Run-time dependency cairo found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
../cairo/meson.build:31:12: ERROR: Dependency "cairo" not found, tried pkgconfig
A full log can be found at /tmp/pip-install-t3prz8p9/pycairo_19c76b7a535d4ba3b506b636c5a2a8a4/.mesonpy-3qkl9ko7/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory¶
Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/vscode/.local/bin/pc", line 5, in <module>
from partcad_cli.click.command import cli
File "/home/vscode/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/partcad_cli/click/command.py", line 3, in <module>
import partcad as pc
File "/home/vscode/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/partcad/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from build123d import Location
File "/home/vscode/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/build123d/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
from build123d.build_common import *
File "/home/vscode/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/build123d/build_common.py", line 57, in <module>
from build123d.geometry import Axis, Location, Plane, Vector, VectorLike
File "/home/vscode/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/build123d/geometry.py", line 56, in <module>
from OCP.Bnd import Bnd_Box, Bnd_OBB
ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory