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That was brought up previously:

https://github.com/opencax/GSoC/issues/27

but didn't get any traction when discussing it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32060838

though there was more in two previous mentionings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21148247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32449336

It's a program I've considered working with, but the lack of integrated CAM is something of a problem for my purposes.



If someone were to come to the project with an interest in integrating CAM features, they would not be turned away. Closest has been having someone implement a BRL-CAD-to-gcode converter, which was actually incredibly well-suited to solid modeling. Used ray tracing to perfectly sample and slice the layers.


That sounds interesting and workable for my needs.

Do you mean:

https://github.com/mbuesch/cnc/blob/master/tools/brlcad2gcod...




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