pythonOCC

Generally speaking, working in an industry that requires you to designed meshes for various products entails that you employ a CAD tool. While CAD applications come with dozens of useful features for design and rendering, sometimes they can lack the functions that allow you to perform various geometric and topological operations.

As the name suggests, pythonOCC is a development framework that can add extra functionality to your CAD app of choice. Among the advanced 2D and 3D geometry algorithms you can use via the utility, you can count B-splines, filleting, a network of curves, shape properties such as mass or volume along with various Boolean operations.

It is important to note that the tool supports the most common standard data files that are likely to be used in the engineering field, such as STEP, IGES, VRML or STL formats. Consequentially, you can conveniently import the mesh you are working on and commence handling it as a geometric component. Once you are done processing it, you can easily export it to another widely used file format.

The utility is designed to work platform independent and hence, the scripts that you create on Windows can also be run on MacOSX as well as Linux. Overall, that can cut down the development costs considerably for any company.