On Sunday 20 September 2020 01:50:10 Bruce Layne wrote: > Creating an STL from a FreeCAD part is about as simple as it can be. > How many times do I have to say it? Freecad has an export to linuxcnc menu. It does not work.
> Highlight the part by clicking on it in the left hand Application > window. Click File-Export > Type in the filename, select the directory where you want it (defaults > to the current location), and select STL from the list of many export > options. And that part works fine. BUT I NEED A SOLID METAL PART! > > There are a few aspects of FreeCAD that still aren't intuitive. > Engraved text is one. It's not too difficult, but it's not very > intuitive. Like GIMP, now that I've used FreeCAD for some time and > have figured out its quirks, I'm fairly productive. Not productive in > the manner of a CAD draftsman, but pretty good for a maker who does > CAD an hour or two a week on average. It's amazing how much can be > accomplished by using geometric primitives (cube, cone, sphere, > cylinder, torus) and using Boolean operations to add or subtract these > components, then using chamfer or fillet on the edges. > > The YouTube FreeCAD tutorials are often out of date and the user > interface improvements and new features make those out of date and > useless (and frustrating), although the current 0.19 version seems to > be stabilizing the basic features. Another issue that confuses people > is the different navigation modes that determine the mouse functions. > Allowing the user to switch to the mouse navigation that they already > learned in a previous CAD program makes FreeCAD flexible, but unless > you use the same navigation mode as the person making the tutorial, > you'll be lost. Finally, way too many alleged tutorials on YouTube > are actually demos. I can see that someone is able to do something, > but the quick clicky demo without any narration to tell me what > they're doing is closer to a magic trick than a tutorial. Slow down, > and tell us what you're doing and why. that too. the youtube screen is way too small to see what they are actually doing. > The best way to learn FreeCAD would be to have someone who knows it > walk you through a design. Figuring it out on your own is probably 1% > as efficient so there's a high frustration factor. The lack of > training materials is seriously holding back the growth of FreeCAD. Nails it solidly right there. > On 9/20/20 1:25 AM, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > > Ugh. Why can't it just do all that automatically to whatever is the > > currently selected part of what's on the screen, or all of it if all > > of what's on screen is one object?Save > Export > .STL and the > > software does the rest behind the scenes. > > > > On Saturday, September 19, 2020, 12:03:07 PM MDT, grumpy--- via > > Emc-users <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: i have used > > freecad enough to be a middle'n noib > > this is how i do it > > save my .fcstd so i can come back and re-edit > > in the top row select "Mesh design" in the drop down > > in the left top panel select your design, "Cut" > > in the top menu click "Meshes" > > select "Create mesh from shape" > > select "Standard" > > select "OK" > > in left top panel click on "Cut (Meshed)" > > right click and select "Export mesh" > > this creates a .stl > > then use cura to slice What for? The plastic has .1% of the strength needed. And takes at least 31 hours and nearly 50 meters of filament would be wasted. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
