evan foss wrote: > Open cascade is just free as in beer. The license is really not what > you would think.
OK then. I looked at the GCAM program site without installing it yet. Seems to have a 3D wireframe view of "hand made" macros done via GUI to create sets of RS-274 G codes. The G code macros it will make are about cutting simple circle or rectangle shapes, then outputting a series of moves that will cut a global depth of cut setting and repeat while necessary. I did not see anything generating spline curves yet. I cannot find any import export function yet. So far, Blender -->python scripts to create G codes --> GCAM setup details added to G codes --> machining job shop is the most reasonable flow I have found to make real parts with. It might be possible to go from blender --> STL --??--> IGES, but I've not found how yet. GCAM checked G codes are farther along than an IGES file, so your charges at the machine shop would be less with them. Whether GCAM would show in 3D a set of G codes that follow a spline curved surface from Blender is an interesting question to answer... _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user