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ToddZ
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My First Part

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Here is the first part that I've milled out entirely using code generated with FreeCAD. I had always used other CAM products to generate G-code for our CNCs in a wood working shop. However I have needed to make a few pieces from aluminum and the usual wood working tool path strategies just don't work very well for cutting out metal. What I needed was a CAM program that could generate Adaptive clearing tool paths and our CAM package does not offer this. So I decided to give the Adaptive tool, in the Path Workbench of FreeCAD a try. it worked splendidly, especially once I figured out how to set up the post processor for my CNC machine.

The part below is only about 2 inches by 5 inches and was cut from 1/4inch 6061 aluminum plate using a 1/4inch carbide O-flute up spiral bit, and fixtured simply on a vacuum table with MDF spoil board. The mill out finish pass had 4 dressup tabs to hold the peice to the stock when cut free.
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OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.16131 (Git)
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Python version: 3.6.6
Qt version: 5.6.2
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OCC version: 7.3.0
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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There is no better proof that things really work.
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Re: My First Part

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Fantastic!

That looks great. Thanks for sharing.

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