Karl Schmidt wrote: > What are people using to generate tool paths? > > I dug into this a few years back and put my notes here: > > http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages > > I've not found usable Open-source software - so I'm looking for something > affordable that works. >
I have generated tool paths from STL files with pycam. It seems to work, the GUI is very easy to use, but it runs very slowly. https://sourceforge.net/projects/pycam/ I have made some 2d drawings and solid models with HeeksCAD, and generated tool paths using the HeeksCNC plugin. HeeksCAD is not quite ready for prime time yet, but it's showing a *lot* of promise and it's got an active community of users and developers. http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ http://code.google.com/p/heekscnc/ The gcode output from pycam and heeks both loaded into emc2 axis and seemed to run just fine. I don't have any CNC machines yet, so I haven't gone all the way yet. In the awesome future there will be a full set of open source CAD/CAM/CNC software on the EMC2 LiveCD, but we're not quite there yet. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
