I admit it is not straight full, but this is because your spline comes from an external sw that needs to be converted to a different sw. That should be enough for your conversion. (it is assumed in that procedure that your kicad_pcb file exists and it is empty)
LIBRECAD VS FUSION 360 INSTALL
The following process is intended to convert your STEP model in a Sketch in FCī) go to ‘Draft WorkBench’ and after selecting the STEP model, go to Menu ‘Draft’ and select ‘Shape 2D View’Ĭ) select the ‘Shape2DView’ object and export it as ‘Autodesk DXF’ĭ) import back the DXF in FC using legacy importer and set the importer to treat spline as polylinesĮ) then install the Macro ‘DXF to Face and Sketch’ through ‘Tools’, ‘addons installer’ and open the file Macro_DXF_to_Face_and_Sketch.FCMacro in FCį) select the ‘SHAPE2DVIEW001’ imported object and switch back to the ‘Macro_DXF_to_Face_and_Sketch.FCMacro’ and run the macro (Ctrl+F6’)
To that end, I am shopping for a new CAD/CAM solution. If I can't afford it, I don't buy it (and I've halted a lot of 'purchases' for just that reason). As I said before, I (personally) don't lease cars. I would rather learn to use a lower cost alternative that I can *own* than a really cool product (that has tons of features I really don't need but are super neat) that I *lease*. I've sat in enough meetings to know that (plus, it is just common sense). And, yes, even though we haven't been paying for the product, we are *absolutely* customers. Let us not forget, however, that there are two sides to the equation with customers being the balancing half. As an industry trend, I completely understand why companies *want* subscriptions. It is a quality organization, and I have a lot of respect for their development team. I actually *almost* worked for AutoDesk once, and I know a fair number of people that have done so. Sure, people have strong opinions (myself included regarding subscriptions), but there has been some great information here regarding different systems. I have to say that I'm really happy with the way this thread has progressed.
LIBRECAD VS FUSION 360 FULL SIZE
Is it stable? Do you feel like it is going to be around for a while? How many axis does it support (I'm sure I could get that from the internet, I know)? Does it really generate good g-code? Are the posts well targeted to a controller (QCAD's for instance, generates massive files when built-in procedures on some controls would do the trick in very few lines)? Frankly, is it suited for a full size CNC? Fundamentally, are you happy with it? I'd really like to hear peoples thoughts about CamBam. I guess I'm not capable of being pleased! LOL.
Having updates every 6 months to 'justify' a subscription is something I rail about, and now no updates bother me too. They finally came out with 1.0.0, but the length of development time caused me some concern. I mean, it was at version 0.9.8 for years, I think. Part of my problem with it is that I've never gotten the feeling that it is very well supported. What low cost/free CAM systems out there will do four or five axis g-code?
Most of the lower cost CAM systems are 2.5D only, although some will do 3 simultaneous axis But, I guess that is a good topic for question. But, it will also be impossible for you to now program. It may not be as still as a Fanuc/Hass/Matsuura/etc, but it will definitely allow you to do an awful lot.
LIBRECAD VS FUSION 360 PLUS
Get a few steppers together plus a trunnion table and you'll have 5 axis pretty quickly for not much money. Unfortunately for them, I think that more and more people are doing multi axis CAM though.
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