JoshM wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 5:27 pm
A I misreading or did you reverse units in restating.

Doh!

I don't know if this is @ChrisWeasley's problem but it might be confusing for others: Regardless of what you have set in your unit preferences or which post processor you're using, if you use the 'inspect Gcode' tool on the toolbar, you see the gcode in native mm/s units. If you set the units in pre...

It appears that FC version 0.17 is about to be frozen and released. https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=25486#p200758 I saw Werner's message too. 0.17 has been a long time coming but now it's getting close so we should get ready. Since Gene got the ball rolling with a conversation...

* Do we need special OPs for slot cutters? * Does the exit/safety strategy of every op need to be determined by the tool? And also - most machines wants to do a homing cycle when reset, which typically starts again with UP ... how does this work in the presence of a slot cutter? The question I have...

I don't think this is an issue for Path wb at all. There's only a handful of feature issues in the tracker and they can all be moved to 0.18. However, development of features without an identified issue is likely to continue until a feature freeze is declared. A signal from the primary devs is neede...

realthunder noted in another thread that he had never been able to make spiral work right.

I suggest that if we get close to a 0.17 release, we disable that method entirely.

Yes, I'm using the join. The file I've attached is the one I've been testing with. I found it on cnccookbook as an example of a properly formatted dxf file for cnc cutting. It's scaled for inches but that shouldn't matter. I'm importing as mm. The results I get from legacy with join are good. It's q...

Fixed in 0b33f977f . The message won't be displayed anymore in no-gui mode Awesome! Thanks yorik. BTW, I'm using the legacy importer because the C++ importer is so much slower. The tooltip in preferences says it's faster but that's not my experience. I'm finding legacy to be almost 10X faster for t...

I'm using the legacy dxf importer in a script and I have the 'join geometry' option turned on. For certain DXF files, I get this warning message displayed on the screen. reinforce.png However, if I'm running my script in a terminal, it just fails. Is there an option or command line parameter to supp...

The freecad default unit schema for velocity is (millimeters per second) mm/s. Most CNC controllers expect mm/min. So either make sure you're entering mm/s or change your unit schema in preferences to "metric small parts & cnc"