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Python Notebooks API Playground
matthew_mueller537
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Hello!
The PTC Education team has started to build out a library of snippets to help anyone get started with Onshape's RESP API using the python-client. This Github repo has some documentation on getting started as well as some example apps made in Google Colab. Here is a link to the main library of snippets.
We've found that Python Notebooks are a great way of writing a simple service or application for Onshape that doesn't need to be scaled (only works with API keys, not OAuth workflow), and sharing snippets through Google Colab are a very easy way to get started. This allows you to quickly add the power of Python and all of its libraries (machine learning, analysis, visualization, etc.) to you design/development workflow with Onshape, or write a simple service to connect Onshape with any other platform that has a REST API.
We are still in the process of building out the snippets library and examples, but would love any feedback or ideas (or code contributions) from the community to make this as useful as possible!
Thanks,
Matt
The PTC Education team has started to build out a library of snippets to help anyone get started with Onshape's RESP API using the python-client. This Github repo has some documentation on getting started as well as some example apps made in Google Colab. Here is a link to the main library of snippets.
We've found that Python Notebooks are a great way of writing a simple service or application for Onshape that doesn't need to be scaled (only works with API keys, not OAuth workflow), and sharing snippets through Google Colab are a very easy way to get started. This allows you to quickly add the power of Python and all of its libraries (machine learning, analysis, visualization, etc.) to you design/development workflow with Onshape, or write a simple service to connect Onshape with any other platform that has a REST API.
We are still in the process of building out the snippets library and examples, but would love any feedback or ideas (or code contributions) from the community to make this as useful as possible!
Thanks,
Matt
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I've never used Google Colab before, but looks interesting.
For me who's done a certain amount of coding in my life but isn't super familiar with Python, I can skim the code and can see how it might be possible to do something useful. However I can't tell how complete the Python access to Onshape is, and what sorts of problems might be best to solve this way vs something else. What are the limitations? Why isn't this more popular?