Pointers to more information

Posted Jul 30, 2020 0:57 UTC (Thu) by kkremitzki (subscriber, #115703)
In reply to: Pointers to more information by michaelkjohnson
Parent article: Open-source CNCing

Thanks for mentioning FreeCAD, Michael, I came here to do just that (project dev/admin here.) The Path Workbench is the component of FreeCAD which deals with CAM/CNC, and it's one of the more active areas of current development; I suggest checking out the Path forum for anyone interested in checking things out with that.

Pointers to more information

Posted Jul 30, 2020 12:19 UTC (Thu) by michaelkjohnson (subscriber, #41438) [Link]

Thanks for your work on FreeCAD! I've really appreciated having such a powerful tool available. It has been my primary tool for toolpath generation.

I should have been a little clearer about FreeCAD and STLs; on re-reading I think I may have given a wrong impression. FreeCAD absolutely can handle STLs and has some powerful tooling available there. It's just that if someone is starting with an STL and doesn't yet know FreeCAD, FreeCAD might not be the shortest learning curve to toolpathing from an STL.