Assembly 4 and CAM/Path
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Assembly 4 and CAM/Path
I'm getting my head around Assembly 4, certainly a step forward. Now I have a project that I'm ready to mill, but find only a 2D object, "Model" when I create a new path job. How do I produce a tool path without resorting to producing a separate file with the 3D model in it?
Re: Assembly 4 and CAM/Path
That's actually a good question, and I don't know the answer. An Assembly4 "Model" is a standard FreeCAD part (App::Part or Std_Part) and I don't know whether the Path WB can handle them. Until now, I always copied the 3D solid to a new file and did the Path-things there.Chowderhead wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:18 pm Now I have a project that I'm ready to mill, but find only a 2D object, "Model" when I create a new path job. How do I produce a tool path without resorting to producing a separate file with the 3D model in it?
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Re: Assembly 4 and CAM/Path
Hi, i stumbled on the same issue here. From my browsing however, it seems that assembly 4 will not work because it only has links to parts not the parts themselves.
Zolko, when you said that you create new file, do you mean that you put all your parts into a "stock" model? Because when i did this, doing the path will still involve many manual work (or maybe it's more that i don't fully understand how to use the Path tool).
Zolko, when you said that you create new file, do you mean that you put all your parts into a "stock" model? Because when i did this, doing the path will still involve many manual work (or maybe it's more that i don't fully understand how to use the Path tool).
Re: Assembly 4 and CAM/Path
what I do is to "export" the link as a solid (in Part WB > "Convert to solid") and use that solid to do the Path things. This looses parametric links, but is much more stable. And I copy that solid into a new file, making it safer if I completely screw up the Path project part. And anyway, if you begin to manufacture something, you need to have the as-built model somewhere, so there is no loss in freezing the part for producing the G-code (which will be frozen anyway !)soerja_015 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:56 am when you said that you create new file, do you mean that you put all your parts into a "stock" model ?
So what I do: Assembly > Convert link to solid > copy that solid into new file > launch Path WB.