FreeCAD

General Setup

To use FreeCAD on a CNC machine a few configuration like for any CAD tool has to be made. Some are rather general and some are specific to the CNC router. FreeCAD offers some great help and resources on the web. This chapter is not intending to replace all that documentation but should just give you a brief overview as a jump start what has worked for the author, feel free to do it differently (and share your knowledge).

In the CAM workbench create a job, for the first time leave template empty. Once you know what you do create a template to speed up your work. In the screen below just press "OK".

Initial CAM Job creation

On the left part you have 6 tabs, on the "Output" tab look at the following settings:

CAM Job - General Settings

As a processor you need to select the processor matching your CNC rounter, for the Workbee select rrf. As the coordinate system choose G54 in case you use the Workbee (might as well differ for other CNC routers). Output File can be left empty, but it is recommended to specify a filename for the gcode file. If you don't specify a filename here the gcode file is called "-" and located in the same folder as your FreeCAD file.

Workbee Specific Setup

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SoftwareInfoBox FreeCAD
Type:	3D Modeling, CAD
Platform:	Windows, Mac, Linux
License:	LGPL-2.0-or-later
Source:	https://www.freecad.org/
Input Formats:
Output Formats:
Users:	Lorenz