FreeMILL Operation Video | CAD/CAM Software Tutorials by MecSoft

[@Reach3DPrinters]

To rough, you can set origin, in freemill, to just below the work piece, then ensure your mill wont drop below origin. run the code, drop the mill the next cut depth, and re-zero the mill. Then change the origin in freemill down the next cut. It requires new gcode for every pass, and you have to zero the mill to the next pass every time. Also, ensure your mill wont actually move below the origin. The z will give negative values but the mill wont drop below zero. Kind of a roundabout, longway, with user adjustments required for each pass, but it works! Probably easier to just buy mach3 or whatever, but some of us just don't have $700 to spend on software...

[@250smacks]

Will freemill plug into onshape?

[@Scientist9221]

any way I can vertically offset the part to get round the lacking of multi-pass g code capability?

[@matheus89555]

Freemill with Haas post processor: Error, MOp is not licensed cannot process operation

[@colinwaddock]

Where is the Visualmill option in the 2014 demo? Seems pointless to have a demo that you cannot use.

[@sagaertj]

I never used any CAM soft so far, so excuse my basic question: How does freemill knows how and where the material is clamped onto the machine (how it would know not to mill into the clamps ... )

[@rogerwalsberg]

It's based on your stock or part's origin. You touch off the machine in X,Y,Z on your stock, so it matches the origin of your model.

[@RozsądnaPV]

Seems like no rough operation in freemill? It's true?

[@kleinesmaenchen]

You would need to define it yourself, the software isn't gonna know it by itself.

[@250smacks]

Does onshape have a free mill plug in?