Drawing tools in OpenSCAD

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Re: Drawing tools in OpenSCAD

Post by WillAdams » Sat Jun 08, 2013 3:09 pm

But the CAM operation in pyCAM was estimated to take over a day.... guess I'll have to use my son's gaming machine.
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Re: Drawing tools in OpenSCAD

Post by WillAdams » Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:56 am

Eventually though, I managed to get a decent file, which I sort of managed to cut:

http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1797
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Re: Drawing tools in OpenSCAD

Post by WillAdams » Sat Jul 06, 2013 3:49 am

But, I then chose to:

- flatten layers to dxfs
- import into Freehand to clean up
- export as svg from Inkscape
- process each layer in MakerCAM
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