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CadQuery is often compared to [OpenSCAD](http://www.openscad.org/). Like OpenSCAD, CadQuery is an open-source, script based, parametric model generator. However, CadQuery stands out in many ways and has several key advantages:
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1. The scripts use a standard programming language, Python, and thus can benefit from the associated infrastructure. This includes many standard libraries and IDEs.
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2. CadQuery's CAD kernel Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) is much more powerful than CGAL. Features supported natively by OCCT include NURBS, splines, surface sewing, STL repair, STEP import/export, and other complex operations, in addition to the standard CSG operations supported by CGAL
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3. Ability to import/export STEP and the ability to begin with a STEP model, created in a CAD package, and then add parametric features. This is possible in OpenSCAD using STL, but STL is a lossy format.
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2. CadQuery's CAD kernel Open CASCADE Technology ([OCCT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cascade_Technology)) is much more powerful than the [CGAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGAL) used by OpenSCAD. Features supported natively by OCCT include NURBS, splines, surface sewing, STL repair, STEP import/export, and other complex operations, in addition to the standard CSG operations supported by CGAL
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3. Ability to import/export [STEP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303) and the ability to begin with a STEP model, created in a CAD package, and then add parametric features. This is possible in OpenSCAD using STL, but STL is a lossy format.
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4. CadQuery scripts require less code to create most objects, because it is possible to locate features based on the position of other features, workplanes, vertices, etc.
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5. CadQuery scripts can build STL, STEP, and AMF faster than OpenSCAD.
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