Freecad "path" workbench generates g-code toolpaths. You can paste your openscad source code into freecad with the openscad workbench.
-- Ralph On Feb 13, 2022 8:54 AM, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Walla Walla University email system. Greetings all; I have composed a simple butress thread in OpenSCAD, which can save many formats besides the .stl's I feed cura with. Those choices are shown in this list: STL OFF WRL AMF 3MF DXF SVG CSG PDF image (png) The latter being what you see in the attached png images. What is out there that can make gcode out of one of those formats, assuming I can do some creative editing to make the bolt code carve an 18" bolt from a hard maple 2x2 being spun by a B axis as Y slowly advances with aux tables to make the Y axis long enough on both ends on my 6040 mill, and I till use a 60 degree engraving mill in it with a 30 degree wedge under the motor mount to tip it to make the 0 degree load face of the thread with the side of the tool's V. I intend to make the wedge as a hinge if I can print it rigid enough. And PETG seems like it could be the Right Stuff. The target of all this tom-foolery is a wood workbench vise screw. The 2nd half nut is about half done on my BIQU HX printer as I send this. So its beginning to look do-able. I faintly recall that inkscape had a gcode generator plugin at one time, does anyone have a clue how well it works or if it even exists today? Synaptic does not look promising but I installed inscape and friends anyway, and of coarse pycam, and I just found dxf2gcode, so that got installed. Does anyone else have a better idea? Thanks All; 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, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeneslinuxbox.net%3A6309%2Fgene&data=04%7C01%7Cralph.stirling%40wallawalla.edu%7C05e2868560234d26943608d9ef11825a%7Cd958f048e43142779c8debfb75e7aa64%7C0%7C1%7C637803680759781378%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=BiQBYBaloSzOybv4A91XF7nfOd8RJOGOqO2Gsv1QkOs%3D&reserved=0> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
