looking for Post for FreeCAD path workbench

[edwardvmills]

@guffy

Gcode looks mostly acceptable to marlin. Except comments (?) and plane selection commands.

But the way how post processing architected in freecam i don’t like. The input for a preprocessor is just “preparsed and decorated” gcode that already produced by freecad cam. So pp has to iterate that gcode and somehow change it. Better then raw text, but in general wrong way.

In comparison with event based post processing architecture of Autodesk it’s just a toy.

of course the few guys coding the CAM side of FreeCAD in their spare time can’t truly compete with Autodesk, but i found it surprisingly usable.

Fusion is great until Autodesk decides they don’t care about you …they already sabotaged some plugins (or so it seems to me)…specifically because people were writing extensions that could eventually threaten the real cash cow, Vault (conjecture of course).

i use Solidworks at work, but for hobby stuff, FreeCAD does a lot, and i feel like i own my own work.