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Change Virtual env for CQ operation

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating CQ-editor's current Conda environment selection and startup configuration, then determine how a user-selected Python virtual environment would be represented and applied; done means CQ-editor can select non-Conda environments without requiring a separate installation per project.

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Description

Hi all,

Thanks for the great project

I have some projects which are starting to use CadQuery. These projects have their own dependency situations so each have a virtual environment. It would be really nice if we could select the python environment within CQ-editor rather than have to add a copy of CQ-editor to each environment.

It would also be good if this environment selector wasn't pinned to Conda, as I don't use Conda

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