Curious: What language is Carbide Create written in?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

I believe it’s C++ and seems to use the QT toolkit.

I doubt it will be opensourced, folks have asked, and it’s viewed as a competitive advantage.

There are a number of other opensource CAM tools which could use help though, see the list at: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/CAM

In particular, MakerCAM looks like low-hanging fruit and really needs to be ported to node.js or something similar.

FWIW, I’ve been working on a hybrid system which uses OpenSCAD as a front-end and then some other tool (LuaLaTeX and METAPOST for one iteration, currently experimenting with TPL (see https://tplang.org/ ) and am considering some other options — hope to submit it to Kickstarter at the beginning of next week.

CNC Box (Finger) Joint Box

Working up a tutorial on this for the wiki: but is now at: First step is to create the box itself: This is done in OpenSCAD using the parameters: length = 6; width = 3; height = 4; thickness = 0.375; bottomlidthickness=0.125; pins=13; partspacing=2; Next resolve the pin/joint size and spacing: [cnc_box_fingerjoint] Next step is to work out how to get from the above parameters to a file which may be easily cut using Carbide Create — probably using METAPOST.