The approach that I have taken is to create separate Jobs for the paths on each face. Whatever I then do Operations seem to be always performed along the original Z-axis. Hi Timw, Unless you have a 4th axis, your approach seems correct. Drilling operations will always be performed in the z-axis, so...

chrisb wrote:

Can we move this to the path forum?

Thanks are some valid points in here and it would be good to get them added to mantis as bug reports.

RatonLaveur wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 11:19 am Sliptonic is active a little on V engraving using OpenVoronoi. My goto move is to use Path From Shape and be done with it.

Once you have made a path from shape is it possible to add it to the 'operations'?

Can you upload the file? There are some files on previous posts. https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=38562&start=10#p327941 I kind of expected featurearea to be able to help here but I have been unsuccessful getting it to work. Having featurearea create linked clones that can ...

Can this issue be closed:

https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=4028

falviani wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 11:26 pm Thanks for the offer! My latest file is attached.

-Frank Alviani

Hi Frank,

I think you sent me back my own model

One way to achieve this would be to model some 'helper geometry'

Like so:


Model attached if you fancy a look.

The part that got really hacky was facing the fixation lugs on each side. If I set material allowance to get it to clean up the corners, it digs into the body of the piece. Here, I could not find better than to edit the sketch and pretend the central block was larger to protect it, then edit the sk...

For thread milling alpha would always be 60 degree. However, most thread mills don't run to a sharp point, so there's a "crest". But I'm starting to feel like this is becoming a fool's errand with forms and parameters with - to be honest - an endless variety. Even if we didn't consider tu...

I regularly wonder why the CAM workbench is still shipped with FreeCAD.

Is there any reason to keep the CAM workbench?

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/tree ... rc/Mod/Cam

Thanks,

Dan