BlenderCam - CNC path addon

Blender CAM is an open source solution for artistic CAM - Computer aided machining - a g-code generation tool. Blender CAM is an extension for the free open-source Blender 3d package.

It has been used for many milling projects, and is actively developed. If you are a developer who would like to help, fork and open pull requests

Installation and Usage

See the Wiki.

Resources

• Development
• Documentation
• Freenode IRC (#blendercam)
• The Matrix (#blendercam:matrix.org)
• Issue Tracker

Dependencies

• Blender 2.80 or 2.92
• OpenCamLib (optional but highly recomended - required for ballcone and bullnose cutter support)
• Recomended on Linux.
• No instructions for Mac users (unknown if opencamlib works)
• OpenCamlib can work on Windows but installation is tricky
• Equation python module (~/Apps/blender-2.92/2.92/python/bin/pip3 install Equation)

DISCLAIMER

THE AUTHORS OF THIS SOFTWARE ACCEPT ABSOLUTELY NO LIABILITY FOR ANY HARM OR LOSS RESULTING FROM ITS USE. IT IS EXTREMELY UNWISE TO RELY ON SOFTWARE ALONE FOR SAFETY. Any machinery capable of harming persons must have provisions for completely removing power from all motors, etc, before persons enter any danger area. All machinery must be designed to comply with local and national safety codes, and the authors of this software can not, and do not, take any responsibility for such compliance.

This software is released under the GPLv2.