If you have nothing else to do download the demo for SynergyCAD.
Parasoiid based. 2-D, 2.5D, wireframe, solids. lathe, edm.
For the lathe you draw in X,Y and it transforms it to Z, X when you CAM.
I started from scratch and it took me a long time to get comfortable
with it. Exports are dxf, dwg which tend to be problematical and iges.
... runs on Windoze with some limitations but those limitations go away
with Linux.
Their forte was extrusion screws back when the only program was DOS based.
YMMV.
Dave
On 2/3/21 2:37 PM, R C wrote:
actually, I think that is what I saw that guy in that video I posted
doing. In freecad, he took a plane and intersected it with his work
piece, and then created a path (he called it a wire.). I posted that
video here a few iterations back in this thread.
That seemed kind of neat, how he did that, but I was not able to
reproduce that.
On 2/3/21 3:29 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 21:55, R C <cjv...@gmail.com> wrote:
I know how to code, from micro controller to clusters, but this
"g-code
thing" is a different animal. And I imagine, that it would take a lot
of drawing and coding on paper, you know, like the 1970's Univaxes...
Not really, you just need to draw the outline. For most lathe-turned
parts that is just a set of diameters and shoulders.
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