* Arthur Torrey <[email protected]> [2022-01-21 04:09]: > An excellent post by Paul Fernhout, but I see one really HUGE problem, namely > that I don't know of ANY Free Software tool or tool-chain that can get a > person from 'beer-mat' to 'g-code' (For those not familiar with the CNC > world, g-code is the 'assembly language' of the CNC manufacturing world... > > I am a member of the Artisan's Asylum maker-space (formerly in > Somerville, MA, temporarily shut down while moving to Allston) and > would dearly love to be able to make the hardware that I can draw > and design in LibreCAD (2D) or possibly FreeCAD, gCAD3D or some > other Free Software 3D CAD package, but I have not been able to find > any way to get from those packages to g-code that I can feed to our > CNC machines.
OpenSCAD - elegant export to G-code from w/in OpenSCAD? https://forum.openscad.org/elegant-export-to-G-code-from-w-in-OpenSCAD-td4037.html Maybe there are some references there. Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
