Is OpenSCAD to CNC possible?
OpenSCAD has been a brilliant tool to indulge my design/construct. or just
plain hack, yearnings. A big "Thank you" to the people who get under the
bonnet and improve it to the standard it is today. Though its shortcomings
maybe many at the fringes of its performance, for every day user like me, I
find it just an amazing tool. However before 3-D Printing, one of the other
machines that have fascinated me for years was the 3-D Milling machines.
To that end I have bought and built a cheapish (~$290Au) aluminium engraving
machine. While it is very basic in design, it has all the things that I
wanted to put together 20yrs ago, in a complete package. It has an Arduino
UNO running GRBL , and I have successfully had some dry runs of test
patterns through LinuxCNC.
To cut this long story short, is there a way to use openSCAD as the design
tool to produce the GRBL file? Or if anyone else is competent in OpenSCAD
and also CAD milling, what is a practical way to achieve some of the design
convenience in OpenSCAD in the other world of 3-D Milling? Is there a
preferred pathway? Any suggestions in the way of software, or online
tutorials, to get me started would be much appreciated.
Cheers, and thanks in advance, Rob
http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1180/IMG_20170611_112902.jpg
Partly built a month ago....
Rob W
Lake Tyers Beach,
Victoria, Australia
Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/
I use OpenSCAD with PyCAM to generate gcode that I feed to LinuxCNC to
drive my CNC router that is connected to a PC parallel port. It should work
with GRBL as well.
On 4 September 2017 at 23:24, RobWLakes rl.ward@bigpond.com wrote:
OpenSCAD has been a brilliant tool to indulge my design/construct. or just
plain hack, yearnings. A big "Thank you" to the people who get under the
bonnet and improve it to the standard it is today. Though its shortcomings
maybe many at the fringes of its performance, for every day user like me, I
find it just an amazing tool. However before 3-D Printing, one of the other
machines that have fascinated me for years was the 3-D Milling machines.
To that end I have bought and built a cheapish (~$290Au) aluminium
engraving
machine. While it is very basic in design, it has all the things that I
wanted to put together 20yrs ago, in a complete package. It has an Arduino
UNO running GRBL , and I have successfully had some dry runs of test
patterns through LinuxCNC.
To cut this long story short, is there a way to use openSCAD as the design
tool to produce the GRBL file? Or if anyone else is competent in OpenSCAD
and also CAD milling, what is a practical way to achieve some of the design
convenience in OpenSCAD in the other world of 3-D Milling? Is there a
preferred pathway? Any suggestions in the way of software, or online
tutorials, to get me started would be much appreciated.
Cheers, and thanks in advance, Rob
http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1180/IMG_20170611_112902.jpg
Partly built a month ago....
Rob W
Lake Tyers Beach,
Victoria, Australia
Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/
OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
Excellent!! Thank you, I will give that a try.
Thank you for the prompt reply, this group is "Ace!".
Rob
On 05/09/17 08:35, nop head wrote:
I use OpenSCAD with PyCAM to generate gcode that I feed to LinuxCNC to
drive my CNC router that is connected to a PC parallel port. It should
work with GRBL as well.
On 4 September 2017 at 23:24, RobWLakes <rl.ward@bigpond.com
mailto:rl.ward@bigpond.com> wrote:
OpenSCAD has been a brilliant tool to indulge my design/construct.
or just
plain hack, yearnings. A big "Thank you" to the people who get
under the
bonnet and improve it to the standard it is today. Though its
shortcomings
maybe many at the fringes of its performance, for every day user
like me, I
find it just an amazing tool. However before 3-D Printing, one of
the other
machines that have fascinated me for years was the 3-D Milling
machines.
To that end I have bought and built a cheapish (~$290Au) aluminium
engraving
machine. While it is very basic in design, it has all the things
that I
wanted to put together 20yrs ago, in a complete package. It has
an Arduino
UNO running GRBL , and I have successfully had some dry runs of test
patterns through LinuxCNC.
To cut this long story short, is there a way to use openSCAD as
the design
tool to produce the GRBL file? Or if anyone else is competent in
OpenSCAD
and also CAD milling, what is a practical way to achieve some of
the design
convenience in OpenSCAD in the other world of 3-D Milling? Is there a
preferred pathway? Any suggestions in the way of software, or online
tutorials, to get me started would be much appreciated.
Cheers, and thanks in advance, Rob
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1180/IMG_20170611_112902.jpg
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1180/IMG_20170611_112902.jpg>>
Partly built a month ago....
-----
Rob W
Lake Tyers Beach,
Victoria, Australia
--
Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/
_______________________________________________
OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org <mailto:Discuss@lists.openscad.org>
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
<http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org>
OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
--
Rob Ward
Lake Tyers Beach, 3909
Lake Tyers Beach Website http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au
Ubuntu Mate - A great OS https://ubuntu-mate.org/
https://github.com/SebKuzminsky/pycam/releases
This link is a more up to date version. I had trouble all day to
install it, this one worked, Ver6 (on Ubuntu Mate 16.04.3 LTS)
Cheers yet to try it so let's see what it does.
Cheers, Rob
On 05/09/17 08:35, nop head wrote:
I use OpenSCAD with PyCAM to generate gcode that I feed to LinuxCNC to
drive my CNC router that is connected to a PC parallel port. It should
work with GRBL as well.
On 4 September 2017 at 23:24, RobWLakes <rl.ward@bigpond.com
mailto:rl.ward@bigpond.com> wrote:
OpenSCAD has been a brilliant tool to indulge my design/construct.
or just
plain hack, yearnings. A big "Thank you" to the people who get
under the
bonnet and improve it to the standard it is today. Though its
shortcomings
maybe many at the fringes of its performance, for every day user
like me, I
find it just an amazing tool. However before 3-D Printing, one of
the other
machines that have fascinated me for years was the 3-D Milling
machines.
To that end I have bought and built a cheapish (~$290Au) aluminium
engraving
machine. While it is very basic in design, it has all the things
that I
wanted to put together 20yrs ago, in a complete package. It has
an Arduino
UNO running GRBL , and I have successfully had some dry runs of test
patterns through LinuxCNC.
To cut this long story short, is there a way to use openSCAD as
the design
tool to produce the GRBL file? Or if anyone else is competent in
OpenSCAD
and also CAD milling, what is a practical way to achieve some of
the design
convenience in OpenSCAD in the other world of 3-D Milling? Is there a
preferred pathway? Any suggestions in the way of software, or online
tutorials, to get me started would be much appreciated.
Cheers, and thanks in advance, Rob
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1180/IMG_20170611_112902.jpg
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1180/IMG_20170611_112902.jpg>>
Partly built a month ago....
-----
Rob W
Lake Tyers Beach,
Victoria, Australia
--
Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/
_______________________________________________
OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org <mailto:Discuss@lists.openscad.org>
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
<http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org>
OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
--
Rob Ward
Lake Tyers Beach, 3909
Lake Tyers Beach Website http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au
Ubuntu Mate - A great OS https://ubuntu-mate.org/
Another option here is to export to a DXF and use a traditional CAM program
--- also the STL files which pyCAM accepts can be used by other 3D CAM
programs. List of options here:
https://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/CAM#3D and
https://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Commercial_Software#3D_CAM
William
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Rob Ward rl.ward@bigpond.com wrote:
https://github.com/SebKuzminsky/pycam/releases
This link is a more up to date version. I had trouble all day to install
it, this one worked, Ver6 (on Ubuntu Mate 16.04.3 LTS)
Cheers yet to try it so let's see what it does.
Cheers, Rob
On 05/09/17 08:35, nop head wrote:
I use OpenSCAD with PyCAM to generate gcode that I feed to LinuxCNC to
drive my CNC router that is connected to a PC parallel port. It should work
with GRBL as well.
On 4 September 2017 at 23:24, RobWLakes rl.ward@bigpond.com wrote:
OpenSCAD has been a brilliant tool to indulge my design/construct. or just
plain hack, yearnings. A big "Thank you" to the people who get under the
bonnet and improve it to the standard it is today. Though its
shortcomings
maybe many at the fringes of its performance, for every day user like me,
I
find it just an amazing tool. However before 3-D Printing, one of the
other
machines that have fascinated me for years was the 3-D Milling machines.
To that end I have bought and built a cheapish (~$290Au) aluminium
engraving
machine. While it is very basic in design, it has all the things that I
wanted to put together 20yrs ago, in a complete package. It has an
Arduino
UNO running GRBL , and I have successfully had some dry runs of test
patterns through LinuxCNC.
To cut this long story short, is there a way to use openSCAD as the design
tool to produce the GRBL file? Or if anyone else is competent in OpenSCAD
and also CAD milling, what is a practical way to achieve some of the
design
convenience in OpenSCAD in the other world of 3-D Milling? Is there a
preferred pathway? Any suggestions in the way of software, or online
tutorials, to get me started would be much appreciated.
Cheers, and thanks in advance, Rob
http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1180/IMG_20170611_112902.jpg
Partly built a month ago....
Rob W
Lake Tyers Beach,
Victoria, Australia
Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/
OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
OpenSCAD mailing listDiscuss@lists.openscad.orghttp://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
--
Rob Ward
Lake Tyers Beach, 3909
Lake Tyers Beach Website http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au
Ubuntu Mate - A great OS https://ubuntu-mate.org/
OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org