FreeCADfirst of all: great work on the Path workbench. I've been watching your progress for a while now and am amazed. Literally only mm's from a perfectly fine CAM-tool!
I tested some features today and ran in some questions/requests:
- Is it intended that the Paths only show up when I hit the "inspect G-code button"?
- Would it be possible to show a "preview" while generating an operation?
- Somehow I can't generate paths with the default tool. The operations show up but I don't see any paths generated. Otherwise if I do the same thing with an tool i created through the tool manager it works.
Further I did some testing with the following part:
As you can see, pocketing works like a charm. But if I want to face-mill my "stock" to this surface:
the path gets generated in the body:
Further I can't really do anything about it, because all values for the calculation are automatically derived from the stock or the tool (here on the left):
This also happens if I'm trying a solid block like here:
so I guess this is not a special case for the part I designed.
A final question: Is there a way I can change the target depth/Step down to my needs or will that always be some kind of derived value?
Keep up the good work, and have a nice one!
- Stef
