http://millcrum.com - Parametric 2.5D GCODE Generator for your CNC or Mill
This works like OpenSCAD except for 2.5D Milling operations.
I’m curious why a 2.5D CAM package seems to indicate a pocketing operation.
@Kyle_Kerr it is not a CAM package. The paths, tool definitions and cut operations are all defined at the input level and the output is gcode.
You can create a design, share it and the next guy only has to change 1 variable to use it on his machine. Hence the parametric part.
CAD and CAM are both 1 step and defined as a programming language. Read the About link on http://millcrum.com
It saves me a lot of time from design to cut and I can for example change the hole size for all or any number of screw holes on a part by simply changing a variable which defines said screw hole size.
Thx for pointing us to this g-code generator.
It’s pretty cool tho – if you could import a DXF in there you could do a lot. In fact using openjscad you can use the CSG module, cut slices of it, and ‘cam’ it.
Good start, and to use JS objects to define operations is handy, had the editor just offered IntelliSense for those objects.
It will be interresting to see where this goes.
@Michel_Pollet Have you looked in to inkscape? I believe it can import DXF and there is even g-code generation available built in.
@Kyle_Kerr well the point is to have a parametric language, not a graphic package. I’ve used Inkscape+JSCut before, but quite frankly, it’s fiddly and primitive (and, very buggy)…
Very cool. What licence is it released under?
There is also now the capability to import Polylines from a dxf. This means if all objects are a closed path it will convert the DXF to a Millcrum file.
if only this was a standalone program
Just clone the git repo and run it locally.