Re: two CAM-like plugins, and other stuff
Posted by
R. van Twisk on
Jan 20, 2012; 7:22pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/two-CAM-like-plugins-and-other-stuff-tp5161438p5161453.html
Dietmar,
that's pretty cool!
I started my own CAM plugins for profiling and pocketing, but didn't had time to finnish that myself.
There is some new light though since a Libreary is in development that allows for doing that.
note to myself, may be it's a good idea to start a LibreCAD plugins project where people can submit code?
And may be a way for plugin naming… just some random thoughts.
Ries
On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:16 PM, DietmarKuehn [via LibreCAD] wrote:
Hallo people,
i am new on this list.
Since 10 years i worked with qcad. Some days ago i tried librecad, and
now it is my working platform.
By profession i'm a CNC programmer for milling machines.
The "list entities" -plugin give me the idea of writing my own plugins,
usable like a simple CAM.
The first experiment write lines for milling contours, and the second
creates bore hole patterns.
See https://github.com/DietmarK/librecad for more details. The code is
not professional, but it works for me.
The generated CNC-code is for Heidenhain-NC. It can be modified for
other NC's, such as G-code.
For a better work with librecad i added some modifications to the code,
see readme-librecad-modified-sources.
Try it out!
I hope it is helpful.
Dietmar