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CAM Studio
jordan_estock713
Member Posts: 2 ✭
Help! I am a high school teacher using Onshape with my engineering classes. We have been using Onshape with students for about 7 years now and love it. We use it to talk to all of our rapid prototyping equipment such as laser cutters and 3d printers.
Where Onshape falls short is the lack of CAM software. Currently our workflow is clunky. It starts in Onshape, we export a PDF to a program called Vcarve (windows) and then we can create toolpaths and send it to cut on our ShopBot CNC router. With all of our students now using Chromebooks I hate having to get another device out that has Vcarve, learn that device/software, to then finally get to the router. I would love to be able to create the CAD model in Onshape and then use Onshape to create the toolpaths and send cut files to my CNC router.
I found out that Onshape has "CAM studio" built in but it is only for professional account users or commercial enterprise account users. Id love to try this CAM studio out before committing the $2,500 for the professional account.
Does anyone have any experience they can share with me regarding CAM Studio in Onshape? OR even better, Is anyone willing to let me try it out with them? I tried gaining access to CAM studio through the Onshape Discovery program where you get 6 months professional access for free but that version does not have CAM studio built in.
Thank you for your consideration
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I'm not sure the CAM component has been added yet but is being worked on by the Onshape peeps. Would https://grid.space/kiri/ be something you could use?
CAM is still in beta. Its not available to anyone in any account type (outside of the beta testers).