Again, probably just being really new at all this.
But I expect that there is a better way to do that, and I couldn't work out how to accomplish the same thing if I used the Part Design Workbench and created everything with sketches. Then I created a sketch on the top of the cube and drew in the slot and created the pocket from that. What I wound up doing in FreeCAD was making a model in the Parts Workbench with a cube and moving the cube to below the plane so Z0 was the top of the cube in the lower left corner.
This is how I did it in EstlCam and HeeksCNC. Typically I set X, Y to the lower left corner with Z0 being the top of the piece to be milled. Is there a setting that I missed in v.16 to compensate for this, or has this been addressed in a later version?Īlso, what's the best way to set the 0 point of the model. I had previously done a test using EstlCam with the same slot and it milled out perfectly. So I'm assuming that the toolpath was such that it followed the line with 1/2 of the milling bit taking a bit outside of the line. The physical result was larger by the size of my milling bit, 3.19mm. Is there an option to direct which side of the line the cutting is done on? In my initial test with v.16 I created a simple model with a slot that was 16mm x 40mm. Have most of the changes now merged into the main branch so I could potentially just pull a nightly build to experiment, or is there another branch that would be better to pull for the Parts Workbench? Where could I grab the latest in progress version with some of the new changes to the Parts Workbench. I'm experimenting with some different CAM packages and ultimately am looking forward to the Path Workbench getting to a point where I can use it for most of what I want to do. I've been building a Mostly Printed CNC machine and have that working well and actually cutting.
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