Aug 2011: Switched from svn to git.

I'm spending most of my time on the STEP Class Library now.

If you want g-code visualization, I suggest cutsim by Anders Wallin. Anders found some of the classes in g2m to be useful - I'm glad someone is getting use out of this!

If you want CAD/CAM, I suggest HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC, now at http://github.com/Heeks

Another program that may interest you is OpenShapeFactory

I got to a point with cam-occ where I couldn't figure out where to go; creating accurate material removal models is fiendishly difficult for some motions. HLR gives me the tool's silhouette, which is useful - but it results in a set of lines that is usually more than a simple loop. Figuring out which lines belong and which don't is a pain.

Now git includes cmake build files as well as qmake. To use cmake to create a bare-bones .deb package:

cd /path/to/project
cmake .
make
make package

6/17/10: doxygen documentation can be viewed here.

Unfortunately, gcode2model doesn't work with many file/tool combinations, due to OCC's boolean operations being very picky.

1-31-2009: I'm working on cam-occ again, and it's now updated in SVN. cam-occ has been re-organized. I hope that it's easier for others to work with. I used QtOCC, so this version requires qt4. I compiled it with OCC 6.3, but I don't think I used any new functionality - if you are on Debian, you can probably use the precompiled .debs.

Note - this is called version 2 because of major changes to the code, not because it has more features! There is a tarball under Featured Downloads, but it is outdated. There is a README which goes into more detail.

Next up, I'm going to try to do some face analysis stuff. (1-29-09)

Andreas Kain modified cam-occ for a presentation at a conference in mid-2008. The source and PDF are on the downloads tab. If you have questions for Andreas, he can be reached at andreas.kain@pe.mw.tum.de . The website for his research group is at http://www.pe.mw.tum.de

If you try to compile and get an error of the form

/some/path/Standard_Real.hxx: In function 'Standard_Integer RealSize()':
/some/path/Standard_Real.hxx:162: error: 'CHAR_BIT' was not declared in this scope

make sure that <limits> is included, and HAVE_FSTREAM and HAVE_LIMITS are defined.

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