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Claws

Jul 13, 2015; 8:05pm

CAM capabilities in LibreCAD?

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Hello forum :)

I have been searching for a CAM/gcode generator for Linux and found several posts referring to LibreCAD.

To my delight, I see that LibreCAD is a fork of QCAD which I bought years ago for a project.
I couldn't believe my luck, but it seems I was too hasty; I can't find CAM capabilities in LibreCAD anywhere.
I found some unanswered post asking the same on the forum, and I've found a plugin on github that doesn't compile.
So am I missing something or was CAM dropped from LibreCAD?

Thanks in advance :)

Regards,

Claws

R. van Twisk

Jul 13, 2015; 8:18pm

Re: CAM capabilities in LibreCAD?

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Hey,

unfortunately we don't have CAM capabilities. Cam in QCAD is a payed add-on and was relative simple,

not as advanced as the well know's CamBam and V-Carve system, more like simple tool paths.

That said, we didn't drop it (I for sure would have used it for my Mechmate).

Knowledge of the day: The fork of QCad started because I wanted to have CAM, I just never had the time

to finnish it (I currently only have some dialogs, how sad...)

Ries

On Jul 13, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Claws [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello forum :)

I have been searching for a CAM/gcode generator for Linux and found several posts referring to LibreCAD.

To my delight, I see that LibreCAD is a fork of QCAD which I bought years ago for a project.
I couldn't believe my luck, but it seems I was too hasty; I can't find CAM capabilities in LibreCAD anywhere.
I found some unanswered post asking the same on the forum, and I've found a plugin on github that doesn't compile.
So am I missing something or was CAM dropped from LibreCAD?

Thanks in advance :)

Regards,

Claws

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ravas

Jul 13, 2015; 8:19pm

Re: CAM capabilities in LibreCAD?

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In reply to this post by Claws

We have File → Export → Export as MakerCAM SVG

R. van Twisk

Jul 13, 2015; 8:27pm

Re: CAM capabilities in LibreCAD?

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489 posts

Thank's ravas!

I never was aware of MakerCAM

ravas

Jul 13, 2015; 8:57pm

Re: CAM capabilities in LibreCAD?

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I think it is only in Nightly Builds.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/Windows/NightlyBuilds/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/OSX/NightlyBuilds/

Claws

Jul 14, 2015; 3:00pm

Re: CAM capabilities in LibreCAD?

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R. van Twisk: Alright, that's too bad. I think is would be an obvious 'selling point' of LibreCAD to expand its userbase *hint* :)

Ravas: Cool. SVG to gcode tools are available it seems, it would just be cool to shorten the tool chain and have it all in one program :)

Thanks for the reply guys.

Regards,

Claws