On Tuesday 24 July 2018 12:14:50 Jon Elson wrote: > On 07/24/2018 07:37 AM, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote: > > I use FreeCAD and Blender for the modeling and PyCAM to > > convert to gcode all on Debian > > I'd like to hear more about this. I tried the VERY latest > FreeCAD a couple months ago and it seemed to have some > problems. So, we then went with Inventor (Autodesk). That > works pretty well, but can be very complicated for an > occasional user. > > I'm thinking maybe that I should not have tried the very > latest release of FreeCAD, and maybe let the new bugs get > fixed first. So, what version are you using? What source > of info did you find to learn to use it? > > Thanks, > > Jon > I think its abandonware Jon, the latest version hasn't moved in about 5 years. He (Dan Heeks) had an earlier project (Heekscad) that could export gcode, but that code never got pulled into freecad. Dan Heeks I expect had to go do something that bought groceries. And neither of those projects ever made him any money. TANSTAAFL applies always.
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