Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
Hi Anders, Do you have the link for the forked currently developed version? Thanks! Playing with PyCam right now. Seems to come a long ways since I last played with it. There's a group of projects on github. https://github.com/Heeks They will differ, more or less, from the corresponding ones on googlecode... For getting g-code and machining done _now_, HeeksCAD/CNC, with possible python mods/hacks, may be the better choice. For the _long_term_ FreeCAD may be the better choice, but generating toolpaths+g-code is very hackish right now afaik. FreeCAD uses OpenCascade+Qt, while HeeksCAD is OpenCascade+Wx. So in theory most HeeksCNC work should transfer over easily. There's a FreeCAD forum at http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/free-cad/ , but I'm not very good at following forums myself so I'm not sure if there's much CAM discussion there.. Anders -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Anders Wallin wrote: I haven't had time to run my machine in quite sometime, but, HeeksCAD is was what I used last time I needed to make some simple tool paths. When I looked at the current state of Heeks yesterday, it seemed like the author was recommending FreeCAD: I don't have time to administer HeeksCAD properly and I suggest for a more active project you look at FreeCAD. http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ My understanding is that Dan Heeks wanted to work on the google-code version himself, whenever he has time - he may be busy with other projects. The version of HeeksCAD/CNC on github was forkeddeveloped by a number of users, but that momentum seems to have been lost now. Hi Anders, Do you have the link for the forked currently developed version? Thanks! Playing with PyCam right now. Seems to come a long ways since I last played with it. Best, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
Greetings, I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least crudely working with it. Is any one using FreeCAD/opencamlib to make any actual cuts? Other than that, can anyone recommend a simple open source solution for generating G-code? If not open source, how about it at least run on Ubuntu 10.04? I appreciate all comments and suggestions! Thanks, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
Have you looked at HeeksCAD/CAM? heeks.net Ray On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Jeshua Lacock jes...@3dtopo.com wrote: Greetings, I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least crudely working with it. Is any one using FreeCAD/opencamlib to make any actual cuts? Other than that, can anyone recommend a simple open source solution for generating G-code? If not open source, how about it at least run on Ubuntu 10.04? I appreciate all comments and suggestions! Thanks, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:50 , Jeshua Lacock wrote: Greetings, I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least crudely working with it. Is any one using FreeCAD/opencamlib to make any actual cuts? Other than that, can anyone recommend a simple open source solution for generating G-code? If not open source, how about it at least run on Ubuntu 10.04? I appreciate all comments and suggestions! I've made parts with FreeCAD and PyCAM. FreeCAD is pretty great, PyCAM still has a ways to go. If you are going to use PyCAM, clone their git repo on Sourceforge, don't use their latest published deb, it's out of date. I feel sanguine about Dan Falck's FreeCAD + OpenCamLib. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:50:34 -0600 Jeshua Lacock jes...@3dtopo.com wrote: Greetings, I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least crudely working with it. Is any one using FreeCAD/opencamlib to make any actual cuts? Other than that, can anyone recommend a simple open source solution for generating G-code? If not open source, how about it at least run on Ubuntu 10.04? I appreciate all comments and suggestions! I think Dan is off using HeeksCAD as the easiest free solution. On the $$ side I use synergy from weber systems. The drafting is free, cam for 2.5 D is $250. IIRC, wireframe is $750 and full solids (parasolids) is $1250. The learning curve is interesting but possible even for a dummy like me. Google 'synergy cad' to get a web site. They have a 30 day trial of the full meal deal. On the non-$$ side I'm trying to learn APT; both for mental exercise and as a practical tool. Dave Thanks, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Ray Mitchell wrote: Have you looked at HeeksCAD/CAM? heeks.net Hi Ray, I haven't had time to run my machine in quite sometime, but, HeeksCAD is was what I used last time I needed to make some simple tool paths. When I looked at the current state of Heeks yesterday, it seemed like the author was recommending FreeCAD: I don't have time to administer HeeksCAD properly and I suggest for a more active project you look at FreeCAD. http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ Apparently, Dan Falck got opencamlib running in FreeCAD. I understand that opencamlib is essentially what powers G-code creation in Heeks: http://opensourcedesigntools.blogspot.com/ Best, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:50 , Jeshua Lacock wrote: Greetings, I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least crudely working with it. Is any one using FreeCAD/opencamlib to make any actual cuts? Other than that, can anyone recommend a simple open source solution for generating G-code? If not open source, how about it at least run on Ubuntu 10.04? I appreciate all comments and suggestions! I've made parts with FreeCAD and PyCAM. FreeCAD is pretty great, PyCAM still has a ways to go. If you are going to use PyCAM, clone their git repo on Sourceforge, don't use their latest published deb, it's out of date. I feel sanguine about Dan Falck's FreeCAD + OpenCamLib. Thanks Sebastian. I had forgot about PyCAM - it looked promising last time I gave it a shot, but IIRC it was crashing last time I tried it. Will give her a whirl. Best, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
On Mar 21, 2012, at 1:24 PM, dave wrote: I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least crudely working with it. Is any one using FreeCAD/opencamlib to make any actual cuts? Other than that, can anyone recommend a simple open source solution for generating G-code? If not open source, how about it at least run on Ubuntu 10.04? I appreciate all comments and suggestions! I think Dan is off using HeeksCAD as the easiest free solution. On the $$ side I use synergy from weber systems. The drafting is free, cam for 2.5 D is $250. IIRC, wireframe is $750 and full solids (parasolids) is $1250. The learning curve is interesting but possible even for a dummy like me. Google 'synergy cad' to get a web site. They have a 30 day trial of the full meal deal. On the non-$$ side I'm trying to learn APT; both for mental exercise and as a practical tool. Thanks for the suggestions Dave. I could live with $250 but I ultimately need some solids. So PyCAM, HeeksCAD and opencamlib that is pretty much all the open source CAM? Seems surprising. Is there any decent 3D CAM on Windows for a few hundred then? Best, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
On Mar 21, 2012, at 13:59 , Jeshua Lacock wrote: Is there any decent 3D CAM on Windows for a few hundred then? A friend speaks highly of Cam Bam (which is closed source, costs money, and runs on Windows). I've never used it, but I've run its gcode on LinuxCNC and that worked well. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
Have you looked at HeeksCAD/CAM? heeks.net Hi Ray, I haven't had time to run my machine in quite sometime, but, HeeksCAD is was what I used last time I needed to make some simple tool paths. When I looked at the current state of Heeks yesterday, it seemed like the author was recommending FreeCAD: I don't have time to administer HeeksCAD properly and I suggest for a more active project you look at FreeCAD. http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ My understanding is that Dan Heeks wanted to work on the google-code version himself, whenever he has time - he may be busy with other projects. The version of HeeksCAD/CNC on github was forkeddeveloped by a number of users, but that momentum seems to have been lost now. Apparently, Dan Falck got opencamlib running in FreeCAD. I understand that opencamlib is essentially what powers G-code creation in Heeks: http://opensourcedesigntools.blogspot.com/ I think Dan Falck ran some python-scripts on STL-files offline, and then just imported the original STL file together with the toolpath into FreeCAD. There are no 2D operations in opencamlib, so any 2/2.5D operations in HeeksCNC use something else. Libarea is used for 2D offsets. I've been tinkering with a 2D voronoi-diagram implementation called OpenVoronoi which can eventually be used for a number of 2D operations. It would be great if someone would work out how to export triangles (3D) and/or lines/polylines/arcs (2D) from FreeCAD into python (where opencalib, openvoronoi, and libarea can be used), and then how toolpaths produced by the libraries can be pushed back into FreeCAD as new geometry. Dan F seems to have made some progress in this direction. Anders -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation
Just to throw my two cents in, in addition to there being very few cam solutions, there are even fewer that do lathe profiling. The ones that do, it's listed as experimental or seems thrown in. Ian On Mar 21, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Greg Bernard wrote: What sort of work are you planning to do? In the Windoze world there is CamBam (about $150 for the latest version, free for the old but still usable version) I could not get it to run under Wine. I just recently bought Vectric V-carve Pro which runs well on Wine. It will do any 2.5 D work and is excellent for artistic type stuff. I am VERY pleased with it. Price is $599. They also have Aspire which does full 3d but is out of my price range at $2000. It is a very nice piece of software however. From: Jeshua Lacock jes...@3dtopo.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation On Mar 21, 2012, at 1:24 PM, dave wrote: I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least crudely working with it. Is any one using FreeCAD/opencamlib to make any actual cuts? Other than that, can anyone recommend a simple open source solution for generating G-code? If not open source, how about it at least run on Ubuntu 10.04? I appreciate all comments and suggestions! I think Dan is off using HeeksCAD as the easiest free solution. On the $$ side I use synergy from weber systems. The drafting is free, cam for 2.5 D is $250. IIRC, wireframe is $750 and full solids (parasolids) is $1250. The learning curve is interesting but possible even for a dummy like me. Google 'synergy cad' to get a web site. They have a 30 day trial of the full meal deal. On the non-$$ side I'm trying to learn APT; both for mental exercise and as a practical tool. Thanks for the suggestions Dave. I could live with $250 but I ultimately need some solids. So PyCAM, HeeksCAD and opencamlib that is pretty much all the open source CAM? Seems surprising. Is there any decent 3D CAM on Windows for a few hundred then? Best, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
