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Writing CAD formats
===================

Examples that take a PyVista dataset and write it to a CAD file on
disk via :func:`pyvista_cad.write_dxf` or the ``.cad`` accessor.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Export a printable part to 3MF. The 3MF format carries per-object names, units, and (where supported) colors: everything a modern slicer needs to put the part on the build plate.">

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Write a 3MF package</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Serialize a tessellated pyvista.PolyData as a faceted TopoDS_Compound in OpenCASCADE&#x27;s native BREP format. BREP is the canonical handoff to any OCCT-aware tool (FreeCAD, build123d, cadquery).">

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Write a BREP file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Round-trip a real 2D drawing through PyVista back out to DXF. The layer assignment of every cell is preserved on the cad.layer array.">

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Write a DXF drawing</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Send a tessellated mesh back to a STEP file via OCCT&#x27;s STEPControl_Writer. The result is faceted (triangulated), not a B-rep reconstruction, ideal for downstream tools that accept STEP for visualization or CAM but do not require analytical surfaces.">

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Write a faceted STEP file</div>
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.. toctree::
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   /examples/02_writers/write_3mf
   /examples/02_writers/write_brep
   /examples/02_writers/write_dxf
   /examples/02_writers/write_step_faceted