I just bought QCAD Pro, but my real goal is to produce parts from my CNC router. I intend to purchase QCAD CAM, but I'm not a software engineer and would love to see a tutorial on how to build a model in QCAD and then export G code. Anyone know of such a thing?
Basically, I am looking for a workflow that gets me from a CAD model to tool paths to G code.
-Steve
QCAD CAD/CAM
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Re: QCAD CAD/CAM
QCAD/CAM comes with some built-in configurations for G-Code, for example the configuration called 'GCode'.
You can find the user manual for exporting a drawing to GCode at:
http://qcad.org/doc/qcad/latest/referen ... /CamExport
A brief reference on how to create and adjust configuration files can be found at:
http://qcad.org/en/qcad-cam-configuration
You can find the user manual for exporting a drawing to GCode at:
http://qcad.org/doc/qcad/latest/referen ... /CamExport
A brief reference on how to create and adjust configuration files can be found at:
http://qcad.org/en/qcad-cam-configuration