[Bf-committers] Blender CAM initiative (as in CAD/CAM)

[Vilem Novak]

Hello,
I wanted to point (possibly interested) developers to the Blender Computer 
Aided Machining - CAM addon.

It has a homepage here:

http://blendercam.blogspot.cz/p/blender-cam-description.html





It's currently purely Python on the side of Blender, and is using numpy and 
Polygon python libraries. 


It took me several months of work to get to a phase where I use the addon in
my personal artistic work for real machining.

Of course, the addon is GPL.




The reason for starting such initiative was that I didn't find any actually 
well working opensource 3d CAM software

 

I am currently distributing the addon with Blender 2.64 builds - for the 
simple reason that the used libraries won't run with Python 3.3 yet, only 
3.2,

and I guess typical user won't be experienced with all the background stuff 
to be able to compile the libraries self - That's also a reason not to 
include the addon into blender repositories (yet), not to confuse users.




If anybody would be interested in joinging the development, these are the 
tasks which would lead to increase in precision and performance, 

especially when done in C and possibly exposed to the Python addon:

http://blendercam.blogspot.cz/p/todo.html





And I am also looking for testers  ;)




cheers 

Vilem Novak