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Re:BRL-CAD by WillAdams on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:39AM (#35453963)
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.

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Re:BRL-CAD by brlcad on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:01PM (#35463592)
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.
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Re:BRL-CAD by WillAdams on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:38AM (#35480965)
That sounds interesting and workable for my needs.

Do you mean:

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

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