>> Have you looked at HeeksCAD/CAM? >> heeks.net > Hi Ray, > I haven't had time to run my machine in quite sometime, but, HeeksCAD is was > what I used last time I needed to make some simple tool paths. > When I looked at the current state of Heeks yesterday, it seemed like the > author was recommending FreeCAD: > "I don't have time to administer HeeksCAD properly and I suggest for a more > active project you look at FreeCAD." > http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/
My understanding is that Dan Heeks wanted to work on the google-code version himself, whenever he has time - he may be busy with other projects. The version of HeeksCAD/CNC on github was forked&developed by a number of users, but that momentum seems to have been lost now. > Apparently, Dan Falck got opencamlib running in FreeCAD. I understand that > opencamlib is essentially what powers G-code creation in Heeks: > http://opensourcedesigntools.blogspot.com/ I think Dan Falck ran some python-scripts on STL-files "offline", and then just imported the original STL file together with the toolpath into FreeCAD. There are no 2D operations in opencamlib, so any 2/2.5D operations in HeeksCNC use something else. Libarea is used for 2D offsets. I've been tinkering with a 2D voronoi-diagram implementation called OpenVoronoi which can eventually be used for a number of 2D operations. It would be great if someone would work out how to export triangles (3D) and/or lines/polylines/arcs (2D) from FreeCAD into python (where opencalib, openvoronoi, and libarea can be used), and then how toolpaths produced by the libraries can be pushed back into FreeCAD as new geometry. Dan F seems to have made some progress in this direction. Anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
