CAM experimental

Description

The CAM Workbench contains a set of hidden commands. They are hidden by default because they are experimental. A command can be considered experimental for any of the following reasons:

  • It is incomplete.

  • It is bug-ridden.

  • It is unstable.

  • It does not produce correct, stable, safe, paths.

  • It is not a standard, regularly used command in the traditional CAM workflow.

  • It is mature but has not yet been moved to the standard tool list.

  • …​ other reasons.

Enable experimental commands

To access the hidden experimental commands of the CAM Workbench, the user must enable them.

Enable CAM Surface and CAM Waterline commands

  1. Open the Preferences Editor via Edit  Preferences.

  2. Go to the CAM  Advanced page.

  3. Check the Enable OCL dependent features checkbox.

  4. Restart FreeCAD.

Enable other experimental commands

  1. Open the Parameter Editor via Tools  Edit Parameters.

  2. Once in the editor the path is BaseApp  Preferences  Mod  CAM.

  3. Right-click in the parameter list area and select New  New Boolean item from the context menu.

  4. Name the new parameter: EnableExperimentalFeatures (case-sensitive).

  5. Set it to: True.

  6. Save the settings.

  7. Restart FreeCAD.

Additional Information

Read more about the specific experimental commands on the wiki pages that link to this one.