Native CAM - How To Install?

After lunch I'll record a small video with step-by-step instructions so that it can also be a guide for those who make the first steps with LinuxCNC. NativeCam is the LinuxCNC "must have".
Floris

please switch on captions (my english, my spanish...)


Link to NativeCAM: www.dropbox.com/s/4hkekh4bxfv14x3/stretc...0.1.14b_all.deb?dl=0

1) Standalone Usage:
ncam [Options]

Options :
-h | --help this text
(-i | --ini=) inifilename inifile used
(-c | --catalog=) catalog valid catalogs = mill, plasma, lathe
-t | --tab axis and gmoccapy only, put NativeCAM in a new tab

2) To prepare your inifile to use NativeCAM embedded,
a) Start in a working directory with your LinuxCNC configuration ini file
cd /home/"user"/linuxcnc/configs/"yourfolder"

b) Type this command :
ncam -i = "inifilename" -c = "valid catalog for this configuration"

A backup of your inifile will be created before it is modified.

After success, you can use it embedded :
linuxcnc inifilename

Hi,
Thanks for the good video.
I used NativeCam in the past, and want to rebuild it on my current image.
However the link to dropbox in the entries above is not working for me, getting a not found message.
Any chance on getting to that file, in order to follow your instructions??

Thanks,
Frans

here you have the link: www.dropbox.com/s/4hkekh4bxfv14x3/stretc...0.1.14b_all.deb?dl=0

I noticed that Fern reactivated the NativeCAM's official page

Thanks.
Using the materials in github I was able to install. It is working now embedded within gmoccapy, first on my simulation in VMWare, and now also with my milling machine.
One other thing I stumbled upon, having embedded Nativecam active, is that when I load in gmoccapy an external gcode file, generated from my CAD system, it gives an error on the gcode, because somehow, it assumes that a Nativecam macro needs to be executed for my external gcode ??
I don't have the details now, can post those later, but did anyone run into that?

Frans

there is a packet you can install
please tell what system you are on
2,7
Linux Debian Ubuntu Mint

so we can help more precise
and there is a irc live Help channel 24/7 Free
you can access this direct on the Machine