FreeCAD anyone?

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With all the hoopla recently concerning Fusion… Has anyone tried FreeCAD?

  1. I see you could export out of F360 as a .step file pretty quickly(no cloud/translation involved)…
  2. And then, import directly into FreeCAD…
  3. Save as you like.

It would take a little work to transfer things over but, seems pretty do-able…

Any experience with any of this??

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I’ve messed around with Qcad - looks to be pretty good.

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I’m using FreeCad and still learning from youtube little tricks, there are some great videos to learn from others. As far as using FreeCad to run my CF Pro, I have not tried it yet. I just got the machine assembled and tested movement yesterday. Hopefully I can give more insight to this soon. I’m trying to convert to FreeCad to run my 3D printer, my Hurco CNC mill and the CF Pro.

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Learning to generate an accurate (with the correct scale factor) Flattened SVG is the trick (and using SheetCam, of course). I use SheetCam on my CF, CNC Router, and, used to use it on my laser, but not since I got LighBurn.
I have used FreeCad to make stl files for my Resin Printer and those have worked well, once I learned to tessellate to a finer resolution than the defaults.

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