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.. _cadquery_reference:
CadQuery Scripts and Object Output
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CadQuery scripts are pure python scripts, that may follow a few conventions.
If you are using cadquery as a library, there are no constraints.
If you are using cadquery scripts inside of a cadquery execution environment,
like `The CadQuery Freecad Module <https://github.com/jmwright/cadquery-freecad-module>`_ or
`parametricParts.com <https://www.parametricparts.com>`_, there are a few conventions you need to be aware of:
* cadquery is already imported as 'cq'
* to return an object to the container, you need to call the build_object() method.
Each script generally has three sections:
* Variable Assignments and metadata definitions
* cadquery and other python code
* object exports, via the export_object() function
see the :ref:`cqgi` section for more details.