This is quite dated now. Please check out the videos in my other channel. I have a new series on the 0.17 release: czcams.com/video/jARnmuWm7n4/video.html
Hi, I'd like to try the path workbench out but I can't seem to get it to work! I downloaded it from the GitHub website along with the 0.16v of FreeCAD, but something's not right. I have the "Path" icon in the workbench list, but when I first select it it returns"No module named PathGui", but in the python console I do get the "Gui.activateWorkbench("PathWorkbench")status. when i select the workbench one more time I get no error but I still don't get the Toolbar. I tried placing the files in different places in the repository but no luck. I'm kinda stuck and I could use some help please.
Hi there, thanks for the video. I have created a path profile operation and I have a problem. The profile is basicly a circle, but when I read the g-code there is this "K" coordinate, I think it is Z offset. The thing is LinuxCNC doesn't like that "K". It can't run the program with it. I removed it manually from the code and it works perfectly. The question is: Is there a setting in FreeCAD so that this "K" doesn't appear in the G-Code? Thanks a lot !
Very, very shiny. Path is really coming along. I'll probably pull your branch later on tonight, build, and give it a go through. Any reason your going with OCC/OCE offset as the default instead of libarea? Or is it just simply offset was where it started with the module and libarea is an addon. At any rate, keep it coming!
+61quick That's it exactly. We started down the path of adding additional icons for each type of algorithm/operation combination but that's not sustainable. When I consolidated the profile operations, I based it on the OCC version so it ended up on top. I could see this being a user preference setting.
I downloaded 0.17 to play with path workbench but I get: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. Also when I load a model nothing shows up. The model works in 0.16
Hi Thanks for Path I'm using freecad.19 and seems to be quite different from this version do you have any plans to update path tutorials for Freecad19?
thanks, this has helped me to get started with the path workbench, but at 5:35 in the video, you show how to select libarea via the algorithm option in view for the pocket , I do not have that option showing. libarea is installed (I use it with HeeksCad) and I tried using it in both v0.16 and ver 0.17 of Freecad Any suggestion as to anything I may have missed, i.e. do I need to compile Freecad with some switches. These versions are as supplied no compiled by myself
You definitely need the 0.17 version. The algorithm switcher is only for profile and pocket ops. Make sure you're looking at the data tab (not view) for the operation. If you're still having trouble, please post to the forum.
Usefull video but i have a problem. I follow your steps. I make a new toolpath project, set the tool list but when i want load tool number (2:40 in vid) not happen anything. Later i try to write the script in to the python consol. It doesn't success nor. Had any similar problem for you?
wow nice video...:} it is now 2021 and i wonder how much better freecad-path is? gee may be i should go out buy a cnc mill and make something kool...:/ thanks a lot...:)
FreeCAD 0.16, when I create a Profile cut, I can't edit any of the parameters. It's set to cut the left side of the line, if I set the dialog box to the right side of the line, it just goes back to left.
0.16 is still considered the stable version but is very old as far as Path is concerned. Everything you're seeing in my videos is from v 0.17 which is still in development. 0.17 has many other things besides path including support for bodies. These are some huge changes and it will be done when it's done. If you can build from source or if you're on linux you can get a daily build. With that you can use 0.16 to design and use 0.17 for CNC.
In a world of 3D (Debt Despair Demagoguery) - this software pleases me a great deal : in UK (Unkind to Kids) harried to death North of England - forced in graves 9 year sooner : May soon secede to Scotland - I found this video phenomenally useful *R > G*
Path is one of many workbenches in FreeCAD. It's the only one that does toolpaths. Are you suggesting it's not appropriate to have a toolpath generating workbench in a design tool? That's crazy. Virtually every major CAD software has a CAM addon, workbench, or other facility. Working with CAM inside the design tool is a natural progression since sometimes the design needs to change to facilitate manufacture.
It is not normally part. Of the design(cad) but the question was really why you do it twice. Once in the path workbench and again in the cam app. This is normally a cam function. This comment was added to another video that included both ..
Very well demonstrated! Thank you very much.
Nice, it already seems to be a useful tool. I like the demo.
This is really good. Great work, I'll try it during the wekend with OpenSUSE and Arch Linux to see if I can catch any bugs.
You have a pleasant voice. Appreciated if you narrate more tutorials.
Long time since I used FreeCAD, must try this looks cool.
very helpful video. Thank you
Nice, nice, nice!
Ohh wow, you really saved me there sir, this is a really very well explained! thank you.
This is quite dated now. Please check out the videos in my other channel. I have a new series on the 0.17 release: czcams.com/video/jARnmuWm7n4/video.html
Thank you, that solved that issue too
Hi,
I'd like to try the path workbench out but I can't seem to get it to work!
I downloaded it from the GitHub website along with the 0.16v of FreeCAD, but something's not right.
I have the "Path" icon in the workbench list, but when I first select it it returns"No module named PathGui", but in the python console I do get the "Gui.activateWorkbench("PathWorkbench")status.
when i select the workbench one more time I get no error but I still don't get the Toolbar.
I tried placing the files in different places in the repository but no luck.
I'm kinda stuck and I could use some help please.
Hi there, thanks for the video. I have created a path profile operation and I have a problem. The profile is basicly a circle, but when I read the g-code there is this "K" coordinate, I think it is Z offset. The thing is LinuxCNC doesn't like that "K". It can't run the program with it. I removed it manually from the code and it works perfectly. The question is: Is there a setting in FreeCAD so that this "K" doesn't appear in the G-Code? Thanks a lot !
Very, very shiny. Path is really coming along. I'll probably pull your branch later on tonight, build, and give it a go through. Any reason your going with OCC/OCE offset as the default instead of libarea? Or is it just simply offset was where it started with the module and libarea is an addon.
At any rate, keep it coming!
+61quick That's it exactly. We started down the path of adding additional icons for each type of algorithm/operation combination but that's not sustainable. When I consolidated the profile operations, I based it on the OCC version so it ended up on top. I could see this being a user preference setting.
+Brad Collette +1 on the user preference setting being in there eventually.
great tutorial....how would i machine the top surface of this project...
I downloaded 0.17 to play with path workbench but I get: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. Also when I load a model nothing shows up. The model works in 0.16
Is it possible to make it work with STL files?
Hi Thanks for Path I'm using freecad.19 and seems to be quite different from this version do you have any plans to update path tutorials for Freecad19?
thanks, this has helped me to get started with the path workbench, but at 5:35 in the video, you show how to select libarea via the algorithm option in view for the pocket , I do not have that option showing. libarea is installed (I use it with HeeksCad) and I tried using it in both v0.16 and ver 0.17 of Freecad Any suggestion as to anything I may have missed, i.e. do I need to compile Freecad with some switches. These versions are as supplied no compiled by myself
You definitely need the 0.17 version. The algorithm switcher is only for profile and pocket ops. Make sure you're looking at the data tab (not view) for the operation. If you're still having trouble, please post to the forum.
Thanks, already have posted to forum
Usefull video but i have a problem. I follow your steps. I make a new toolpath project, set the tool list but when i want load tool number (2:40 in vid) not happen anything. Later i try to write the script in to the python consol. It doesn't success nor. Had any similar problem for you?
wow nice video...:} it is now 2021 and i wonder how much better freecad-path is? gee may be i should go out buy a cnc mill and make something kool...:/ thanks a lot...:)
FreeCAD 0.16, when I create a Profile cut, I can't edit any of the parameters. It's set to cut the left side of the line, if I set the dialog box to the right side of the line, it just goes back to left.
And the pocket tool seems to just lock up FreeCAD.
Let me ask you a question, what's it going to take to get to V1.0 of this software?
0.16 is still considered the stable version but is very old as far as Path is concerned. Everything you're seeing in my videos is from v 0.17 which is still in development. 0.17 has many other things besides path including support for bodies. These are some huge changes and it will be done when it's done. If you can build from source or if you're on linux you can get a daily build. With that you can use 0.16 to design and use 0.17 for CNC.
In a world of 3D (Debt Despair Demagoguery) - this software pleases me a great deal : in UK (Unkind to Kids) harried to death North of England - forced in graves 9 year sooner : May soon secede to Scotland - I found this video phenomenally useful *R > G*
Why do you create toolpaths in the CAD and the CAM apps? Surely the CAM program only should create the toolpaths?
Path is one of many workbenches in FreeCAD. It's the only one that does toolpaths. Are you suggesting it's not appropriate to have a toolpath generating workbench in a design tool? That's crazy. Virtually every major CAD software has a CAM addon, workbench, or other facility. Working with CAM inside the design tool is a natural progression since sometimes the design needs to change to facilitate manufacture.
It is not normally part. Of the design(cad) but the question was really why you do it twice. Once in the path workbench and again in the cam app. This is normally a cam function. This comment was added to another video that included both ..
sliptonic yes it looks like my comment ended on incorrect video... I posted it on a Web page where another video was posted. Strange.