CAD-CAM for post-processing and milling with Candle.

[Hostaler]

Hi everyone, do you know of any CAD-CAM for post-processing and milling with Candle that is free and not one of those one-month trials that expires, or one that is absolutely free but then does not post-process if you do not buy the program...
If you know of any, either on Github or outside of Gitbub, please share it.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I will fully understand if the author of this community deletes my comment since it is not in the correct section.

[ondras12345]

FreeCAD is an open-source parametric CAD/CAM package. I use it exclusively for all my 3D CAD needs, and I have successfully used it for a couple of milling jobs in the past. I don't have all that much experience with the CAM functionality though, since I mostly do PCB milling on my machine which requires a totally different CAM workflow.
When choosing the post-processor, keep in mind that the CAM program does not care what Gcode sender you are using (Candle), but rather what firmware your machine is running (GRBL).

[Hostaler]

Thanks for your reply, I'll get on it to see what FreeCAD is capable of.

[Hostaler]

FreeCAD es un paquete CAD/CAM paramétrico de código abierto. Lo utilizo exclusivamente para todas mis necesidades de CAD 3D y lo he utilizado con éxito para un par de trabajos de fresado en el pasado. Sin embargo, no tengo demasiada experiencia con la funcionalidad CAM, ya que principalmente hago fresado de PCB en mi máquina, lo que requiere un flujo de trabajo CAM totalmente diferente. Al elegir el posprocesador, tenga en cuenta que al programa CAM no le importa qué transmisor de Gcode esté utilizando (Candle), sino qué firmware está ejecutando su máquina (GRBL).

Thank you very much Ondras12345, last night I started studying Inkscape, which is also free, and following a tutorial I got this file for Candle directly. At the moment it seems to be a deep engraving.
Now I just have to run it on the machine.

Zorro.txt

Original image:

[ondras12345]

Inkscape is probably good enough for these sorts of "2.5D" / engraving jobs. I assumed you wanted to machine metal parts or something like that, which is why I suggested FreeCAD. However, it would be close to impossible to engrave an image like this with FreeCAD.