No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cadquery has 473K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 2.8.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of cadquery-ocp, casadi and ezdxf. It is used by 53 tracked packages, including meshwell, cad-to-dagmc and cadquery-direct-mesh-plugin.
GitHub topics include parametric, cad and 3d.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
79
Adoption
66
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
473,285
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
473,285
Stars
5,405
Stars per 1k downloads
11.42
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
14,245
Month daily avg
15,776
Momentum
-9.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache Public License 2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
16 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
108
Monthly downloads
473,285
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
84
Issue Burden
79.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
23.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
11.1K
Windows
1.1K
macOS
453
Python Versions
3.12
40.3%
5.1K
3.11
36.8%
4.6K
3.13
13.0%
1.6K
3.10
7.4%
932
3.14
2.5%
312
Top Countries
1.
US
9.8K
US
2.
CN
473
CN
3.
IN
378
IN
4.
DE
243
DE
5.
ID
238
ID
6.
HK
222
HK
7.
SG
160
SG
8.
JP
148
JP
9.
BR
94
BR
10.
KR
92
KR
Dependencies
13
- cadquery-ocp <8.0,>=7.9.3.1
- casadi
- ezdxf >=1.3.0
- multimethod <2.0,>=1.11
- nlopt <3.0,>=2.9.0
- numba
- pyparsing >=3.0.0
- runtype
- scipy
- trame
- trame-components
- trame-vtk
- trame-vuetify
Used By
53
- meshwell
- cad-to-dagmc
- cadquery-direct-mesh-plugin
- agentcad
- filament-calibrator
- cq-editor
- paramak
- diffinytrace
- cqparts
- cad-to-openmc
- cqgridfinity
- simplecadapi
- vibe-cading
- picht
- ansyas
- microgen
- microfinity
- cadclaw
- assembly-mesh-plugin
- moat-cad
- agentcad-backend
- stl2step
- pymeshup
- openmagneticsvirtualbuilder
- creo-mcp
- argus-diff
- roxieinterfaces
- cadqueryhelper
- cadscript
- claude-cad
- cadquery-png-plugin
- waverider-generator
- cadquery-cli
- cadquery-freecad-import-plugin
- nucad
- ambigram
- cq-annotate
- cq-studio
- cadquery-mcp
- cq-electronics
- solid-node
- caid
- cq-centrifugal-fan
- basd
- ogt
- pcb-jigify
- monobd
- next3d
- geargen
- cq-enclosure
Package Information
License
Apache Public License 2.0
First Release
April 24, 2013
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.8.0
Total Releases
35
Contributors
108
Open PRs
27
Archived
No
Author
David Cowden
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh