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Definitely not scipy. Long term we should switch to casadi (i.e. what is used by the assy solver) or get rid of the sketch solver completely.

I don't understand what precisely are we discussing here. It does not look like a nlopt issue per se. It uses CMake and not pip for building... Maybe try the...

Interesting, on win I get an infinite loop with 7.7.1 and a silent crash with 7.7.2.

FYI mamba/conda is the best supported way to install cadquery, install to a local dir if you are afraid of side effects: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#install-the-conda-package-manager

@lorenzncode interesting. I checked with draw from 7.5 I do get an infinite loop of sorts. Draw from 7.8 works fine (I don't have 7.7.2 at hand). Looking quickly at...

@lorenzncode what is the current conclusion regarding CQ? I.e. can we change some settings to mitigate the issue?

Seems to work in CQ2.0: 

Same here. Maybe take a look if #1525 helps you. It seems that there is no one liner that would solve this. You might need to handle such issues on...

Probably when this lands in the OCCT release and when this release is wrapped and used in CQ. I assume 7.9, will take a while.

Then stay tuned (#1589)