#CADTOOLS ADDTIONAL TURNING RADIUS SOFTWARE#

These extensions has only dealt with flattening of assemblies and their layout on sheets, and has not dealt with DXF export (to my knowledge).Īlso accidentally, on a FreeCAD forum, I just saw someone referring to your extension (with a link to it featured on the MasterSketchUp channel on Youtube) with a wish that something like this existed for FreeCAD too. He has also made an extension called Milling Tools. From the renowned 's GitHub page, I could see that he made a fork of this as well. There was a Wikihouse-plugin, but it hasn’t been updated for 10 years. I searched the Extension Warehouse and Sketchucation with the keywords “WikiHouse” and “CNC”, but I didn’t find your extension initially - just by accident did I see this tread a digest newsletter from this forum. As a side note, I learned from one of their developers that they’ve laid out the DXF files by hand. But I wanted to see if I could find an extension for Sketchup that could be helpful for this. Fair enough, they have prepared DXF that can be downloaded from their GitHub page. It can be downloaded as a Sketchup file ( ).Īs I look through their building elements, I am reminded of how much work can go into turning 3D models into DXF files for import in milling software. Just a couple of days ago, the originators of the WikiHouse concept (they now go under the company name Open Systems Lab) I saw news about their new design-kit “Skylark”. Sometimes, events just converge in time, such that it seems right to engage. I read this whole tread with great interest.

#CADTOOLS ADDTIONAL TURNING RADIUS SOFTWARE#

At some point at least a couple of the machinery makers thought they would try their hand at software and they copied software developers that were using DXFs with blocks.Īs more cad programs and specialized cabinet design programs became available the use of block went away. You can group 3d items that will have z values just as easy as you can group 2d items.Įarly in those CNC software days Autocad was one of the few cad tools being used so software companies wrote their programs specifically for using Autocad DXFs with Blocks. You could think of Xrefs as a dumb version of Components in SketchUp.įor woodworking and for me cabinetmaking specifically, memory is no longer scare so groups is all we need. Xrefs and Blocks were from the early days of computing when memory and resources were scarce. Xrefs were another Autocad thing to store groups of items in a file for reference in other drawings. Group things together and to save resources so you could have one set of data for a group of cad entities used multiple times in a single drawing.

Cadtools addtional turning radius