CadQuery: How to fix cq.Location() error: TypeError: Expected three floats, OCC gp_, or 3-tuple
Problem
You are trying to construct a cq.Location
object using code like
cq.Location(1, 2, 3)
however when you run it, you see the following error message:
File ~\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\cadquery\occ_impl\geom.py:1011, in Location.__init__(self, *args)
1008 else:
1009 t, ax, angle = args
1010 T.SetRotation(
-> 1011 gp_Ax1(Vector().toPnt(), Vector(ax).toDir()), angle * math.pi / 180.0
1012 )
1013 T.SetTranslationPart(Vector(t).wrapped)
1015 self.wrapped = TopLoc_Location(T)
File ~\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\cadquery\occ_impl\geom.py:91, in Vector.__init__(self, *args)
89 fV = gp_Vec(args[0])
90 else:
---> 91 raise TypeError("Expected three floats, OCC gp_, or 3-tuple")
92 elif len(args) == 0:
93 fV = gp_Vec(0, 0, 0)
TypeError: Expected three floats, OCC gp_, or 3-tuple
Solution
Don’t pass three separate parameters to cq.Location()
- pass a tuple with three numbers by adding an additional set of braces:
cq.Location((1, 2, 3))