What is your pipeline to produce your Gcode?

Hello, it s all in the title.
What is your pipeline to produce your Gcode? ( for 3d object not pcb milling )

i used to play with my 3d printer but never manage to really produce anything because of extrusion problem.
So i went to the CNC world by just updating a marlin (removing the mintemp problem) and adding a dremel.
things work very smoothly on soft wood even unatended ( never the case with my 3d printer)
I still have to try some hard wood but i guess it'll have to go veryyy slowly

but i got a software problem:
to produce my gcode i actually write a javascript program that produce the gcode for simple geometric paths square/polygon/stars... it's limited and boring
then i send the gcode via printrun


i can t figure a simple pipeline to go from drawing to cutting.
I tried Fusion360 which is nearly what i want but the program itself is still pretty complicaed...

With the 3d printer i used Sketchup/slicer/printrun, desining was very simple and pleasent

Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2016 05:08AM by glub0x.

All the free / opensource stuff I've been able to find is here:

[www.shapeoko.com]

When I first tried to do 3D routing I used pyCAM which more-or-less worked, but eventually I resorted to manually flattening and generating files. Some people who don't object to closed source have had good luck w/ FreeMill or the old trial of CamBam.

... it's no problem to convert common G-code into proper format for Printrun - I've done this first with text editors (best was notepad++) -- now together with my wife we're writing all sorts of "importers" to convert other vector formats into G-code for paste-dispensing or laserengraving (actually we have importers for "plain G-code", HPGL, Gerber, basic SVG and some custom XY(Z)-coordinate-files ... preparing for DXF and Isel NCP format )

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I get an STL, put it into Kiri Moto (grid.space), then to Universal Gcode Sender

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2016 12:08PM by corcovado.