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WillAdams

That was brought up previously:

https://github.com/opencax/GSoC/issues/27

but didn't get any traction when discussing it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32060838

though there was more in two previous mentionings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21148247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32449336

It's a program I've considered working with, but the lack of integrated CAM is something of a problem for my purposes.

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If someone were to come to the project with an interest in integrating CAM features, they would not be turned away. Closest has been having someone implement a BRL-CAD-to-gcode converter, which was actually incredibly well-suited to solid modeling. Used ray tracing to perfectly sample and slice the layers.

That sounds interesting and workable for my needs.

Do you mean:

https://github.com/mbuesch/cnc/blob/master/tools/brlcad2gcod...

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