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by ibex
Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:18 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Confirmation of capabilities of FreeCAD
Replies: 11
Views: 3799

Re: Confirmation of capabilities of FreeCAD

drmacro wrote: Sat Jun 20, 2020 11:50 am Would it not be expedient to use the FreeCAD Path workbench to create cnc files directly?
I don't know anything about the path workbench so I'll have a look at that. I suspect that the CNC lab probably want more control over that final step but I will talk to them about it.
by ibex
Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:15 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Confirmation of capabilities of FreeCAD
Replies: 11
Views: 3799

Re: Confirmation of capabilities of FreeCAD

Info about layers: Draft_Layer. FreeCAD is not the ideal tool if you only want to create DXF files. In that case you should perhaps look at LibreCAD . Thanks I'll read up on layers. If it can do what I want to generate the DXF files for CNC then I plan to replace SketchUp with FreeCAD for all of my...
by ibex
Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:00 am
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Confirmation of capabilities of FreeCAD
Replies: 11
Views: 3799

Confirmation of capabilities of FreeCAD

I am a day 1 user of FreeCAD who is converting over from Sketchup as I can't find a really satisfactory method of producing the files for CNC projects from SketchUp. So before I go down the path of learning FreeCAD in detail I'd like to confirm that it will produce the key output that I'm looking fo...