The reason that I choose FreeCAD for the 'mothership' as we sometimes call it, is because it's open source, very powerful, seems to run on the big three operating systems, uses python for scripting, is very stable, and the developers support it very well.
The major bits of code are separated in a fairly logical fashion, making it easy to understand and wire up with the gui of another application. Dan Heeks made it pretty easy to do, since he set HeeksCNC up as a plugin for HeeksCAD. FreeCAD CAM Part for machining 6,619 views 30 Dislike Share Save CAD CAM Lessons 3.76K subscribers In this video we will prepare part for FreeCAD Path Workbench Tutorial. SketchUp is a premier 3D design software that truly makes 3D modeling for everyone, with a simple to learn yet robust toolset that empowers you to create. I only want to connect the FreeCAD gui with all the underlying HeeksCNC code. I actually plan on reusing most of HeeksCNC for the machining operations, tool lists, post processor etc. I can see how I want to do it, after working with HeeksCNC for a few years.
A FreeCAD document contains all the objects of your scene. I have a simple Profile operation that will spit out some g-code. FreeCAD is a multiplatfom (Windows, Mac and Linux), highly customizable and extensible software. I've done a bit of proof of concept stuff- I can backplot g-code into FreeCAD pretty easily. Right now, I call it CNC workbench on my github repo, but don't have a whole lot going on there. I'm working on yet another workbench to do CAM and should probably call it CAM II or something. It's probably just me, but I don't have a clue what's going on there. I initially checked out the CAM module that comes packaged with FreeCAD, but I don't really understand what it's trying to do.
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