Can't export Workplanes

[davidedelvento]

Following the example from https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/blob/2629bf94900a6acedd00b8b50f00c41a30b4785c/doc/importexport.rst#exporting-step and the documentation at https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/classreference.html?highlight=export#cadquery.Workplane.export

(note it says version 2.4 on the left)

To Reproduce

$ python
Python 3.10.12 (main, Nov  6 2024, 20:22:13) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cadquery
>>> cadquery.__version__
'2.4.0'
>>> box = cadquery.Workplane().box(10, 10, 10)
>>> box.export("box.step")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Workplane' object has no attribute 'export'. Did you mean: 'exportSvg'?

Backtrace

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Workplane' object has no attribute 'export'. Did you mean: 'exportSvg'?

Environment

OS: Linux

Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

Was CadQuery installed using Conda?: No, with pip. Note that I had to jump through the hoops detailed in #1626 but that seems unlikely to cause this issue?

Output of pip list from your active virtual environment:

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Using: nothing other than cadquery itself

[davidedelvento]

Probably obvious to the developers, but for the sake of other users' sanity: here is a possible workaround (tested only minimally)

from cadquery import exporters
exporters.export(box, "box.step")

[lorenzncode]

(note it says version 2.4 on the left)

It is incorrect.

For now, if you are on 2.4 rather than latest master branch, switch to "stable" docs version (select in bottom right).