Overview¶

For now, extensions are relatively small, lightweight modules intended to streamline basic OpenCASCADE functionality and make it more pythonic. They should be small in scope and provide relatively generic capability to enable users to more quickly develop their own applications. Development of large-scale, special purpose toolkits or applications is outside the scope of native pyOCCT functionality.

Exchange¶

The Exchange extension provides tools for data exchange including reading and writing BREP, STEP, and/or IGES files. The tools can be imported as:

from OCCT.Exchange import *

shape = ExchangeBasic.read_step('model.step')

The following tools are available:

OCCT.Exchange tools.¶
Name	Description
`ExchangeBasic`	Basic read/write static methods.

Visualization¶

A minimal viewing tool is provided in the Visualization extension. It can be imported as:

from OCCT.Visualization import WxViewer

v = ViewerWx()
v.add(*args)
v.start()

This is intended to provide only a minimum capability to display shapes to the screen. Examine the source further for other methods and properties.

The following tools are available: