Adaptive Clearing (HSM)?

Anyone played with the "new" Adaptive Clearing (and profiling) in FreeCAD?

How good does it work? How do the tool paths and G-code it makes compare with more commercial offerings?

I've almost finished setting up my first attempt at using FreeCAD for this. (still running simulations and proofing what I got.)

Now I just have to work up the never to give the code it spit out a go on the machine.

I should have posted a pic of what the tool paths look like. I was also very impressed by the speed of FreeCAD generating the tool paths.



Now building the model and figuring out how to generate tool paths in this program was an entirely different story. That was a rather painful process. But I'll chalk that up to not being familiar with the program. With practice that should get easier.

I am slightly disappointed that it only outputs metric g-code, but I can deal with it. Overall I am very excited to play with this new tool.

PS: The Adaptive Tool Paths feature is new to FreeCAD v0.18. (Which is in Debian 10/Buster and Testing/Bullseye. I am running Bullseye on my FreeCAD machine.)

Todd wrote:

I am slightly disappointed that it only outputs metric g-code, but I can deal with it.

Metric is default, but there are lots of people using imperial in FreeCAD. As I live in metric heaven, I have not bothered to learn where the setting is made... You can search the FreeCAD forum and you will find the answer, as I know lots of people have had the same question.

I thought I read/saw some place that FreeCAD only will output the G-code in Metric. I am doing my drafting and set up work in inches in FreeCAD, but it still spits out Metric G-code.

I have not gotten around to testing if the machine I want to run the above test on will work right with metric g-code or exactly how it will need configured to use it. My biggest concern is that tool offsets will still be handled correctly. It could ruin your day if your tool offset used the wrong units.

Hopefully I will have some time to run some tests next week sometime.

workes fine
the hint are only the rapids inside toolpath cand be toggled

Yes, it generates metric g-codes by default. If you find the setting in Path, it will come out as imperial instead.
www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Path_Workbench
Scroll down to "units" and you will find the instructions.