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cadnano 2.5 (radnano)

This is a development version of cadnano ported to Qt5/PyQt5

Changes

A number of organizational and style changes have occured from cadnano 2

  • cadnano can be run in python without Qt installed at all
  • Python 3 compatible
  • no more camel-case'd variables
  • QUndoCommands are broken out to their own modules
  • added a STL generator to generate models for 3D printing
  • Maya code removed.
  • Added ability to take advantage of pyqtdeploy tool to build standalone versions that can be destributed as binary
  • stablized code base so fewer crashes

The only additional burden for development on this code base is installing PyQt5 to use the GUI which is not a one click situation. Fortunately pyqtdeploy should make this a problem for only people who want to hack on the code base.

Running

to run:

python bin/main.py

PyQt5 Installation

the requirements PyQt5 and sip are available from Riverbank Computing Limited at:

if on Windows just download the installer for your python version

if on Linux or Mac follow this path:

you can run the included pyqt5_check.py which will grab, build and install Qt5, sip and PyQt5 in your python environment. It is cleanest using virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper creating a virtualenv with:

mkvirtualenv -p /path/to/python/of/choice/bin/python myvenv
python pyqt5_check.py

and then running the script, but you can definitely install in your system python if you run:

sudo python pyqt5_check.py

or you can manually:

  1. Install Qt5. download the online installer
  2. Build sip and PyQt5 against this Qt5

Of course there are many ways to accomplish this feat, but needless to say OS X and Linux installs of PyQt5 can be painful for some people.

nno2stl: Conversion of cadnano .nno files to 3D STL model

The purpose of this is for 3D printing cadnano designs