http://www.brusselsprout.org/CAMBAM/CamBam is a CAD / CAM application designed to take common CAD files such as DXF and 3DS, manipulate drawings using CamBam's internal geometry engine then produce tool paths and gcode for CNC machines. Some key features include:
2.5D profiling and pocketing.
Toolpaths from True Type (TTF) Text.
Fully scriptable using VBScript or JScript.
Some 3D support is appearing.
The application is extentable by user written addins written in a variety of .NET supported languages include C/C++, C#, Visual Basic.
Bitmap to heightmap included for rudimentary 3D machining from photographs.
At the moment, its free!
Please note! CamBam is still in Beta development. Please verify any code this program may generate before unleashing it on expensive hardware.
