You plan to solve problems that do not require the creation of 3-d models.

It's entirely possible to script FreeCAD and Path this way but it's going to take more programming skills.Ĭan you explain your desired workflow in a bit more detail? Maybe you want to write your own python scripts that can be executed from the command line to update models and generate gcode. That kind of optimization will still require intervention.

But the path job won't make more efficient use of material if you cut two small doors instead of one big one.

That way you could just adjust the parameters of the model and then post-process the job again. Maybe you want parametric models as described above, but you want them linked to a stable Path Job. It would be especially useful to link your parameters into a spreadsheet. Rather, you need to design the models right in the first place so they are parametric and stable. Maybe you want to have parametric models of doors and cabinets that you can adjust and which can be used as the base objects for FreeCAD Path Jobs. So I assume you mean you want to parametrically generate regular gcode. I don't think that's what you want and FreeCAD isn't well suited to doing it anyway. Going off of your title, there's a lot of different ways to interpret what you're asking for.įor example do you want to generate gcode which is parametric? Simple Gcode routines can be written to use variables rather than hard coded values. LinuxCNC has a tool to do something like this but it's really just using the greyscale of the image to control Z depth. Generating gcode directly from an image really isn't possible.

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