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- added a new Tcl Command named SetPath which will set a path to be used by the Tcl commands. Once set will serve as a fallback path in case that the files fail to be opened first time. It will be persistent, saved in preferences. - added the GUI for the new Open Example in the FIle -> Scripting menu. - I am modifying all the open ... handlers to add a parameter that will flag if the method was launched from Tcl Shell. This way if the method will fail to open the filename (which include the path) it will try to open from a set fallback path. - fixed issue #406, bug introduced recently (leftover changes). - modified the ImportSVG Tcl command name to OpenSVG (open_svg alias) - added a new Tcl command named OpenDXF (open_dxf alias) - fixed some errors in Scripting features - added a new Tcl command named GetPath as a convenient way to get the current default path stored in App.defaults['global_tcl_path']
FlatCAM BETA (c) 2019 - by Marius Stanciu Based on FlatCAM: 2D Computer-Aided PCB Manufacturing by (c) 2014-2016 Juan Pablo Caram
FlatCAM is a program for preparing CNC jobs for making PCBs on a CNC router. Among other things, it can take a Gerber file generated by your favorite PCB CAD program, and create G-Code for Isolation routing.
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Works with Python version 3.5 or greater and PyQt5. More on the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvP2SYRpx-AQgNlfoxw93tXUXon7G94_
You can contact me on my email address found in the app in: Menu -> Help -> About FlatCAM -> Programmers -> Marius Stanciu
- Make sure that your OS is up-to-date
- Download sources from: https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/downloads/
- Unzip them on a HDD location that your user has permissions for.
1.Windows
- download the provided installer (for your OS flavor 64bit or 32bit) from: https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/downloads/
- execute the installer and install the program. It is recommended to install as a Local User.
or from sources:
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download the sources from the same location
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unzip them on a safe location on your HDD that your user has permissions for
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install WinPython e.g WinPython 3.8 downloaded from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/WinPython_3.8/ Use one of the versions (64bit or 32it) that are compatible with your OS. To save space use one of the versions that have the smaller size (they offer 2 versions: one with size of few hundred MB and one smaller with size of few tens of MB)
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add Python folder and Python\Scripts folder to your Windows Path (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/sharepoint-2010/ee537574(v%3Doffice.14))
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verify that the pip package can be run by opening Command Prompt(Admin) and running the command:
pip -V
- look in the requirements.txt file (found in the sources folder) and install all the dependencies using the pip package. The required wheels can be downloaded either from: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ or https://pypi.org/
You can download all the required wheels files into a folder (e.g D:\my_folder) and install them from Command Prompt like this:
cd D:\my_folder
and for each wheel file (*.whl) run:
D:\my_folder\> pip install --upgrade package_from_requirements.whl
Run FlatCAM beta from the installation folder (e.g D:\FlatCAM_beta) in the Command Prompt with the following command: cd D:\FlatCAM_beta python FlatCAM.py
2.Linux
- make sure that Python 3.8 is installed on your OS and that the command: python3 -V confirm it
- verify that the pip package is installed for your Python installation (e.g 3.8) by running the command:
pip3 -V
If it is not installed, install it. In Ubuntu-like OS's it is done like this:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
or:
sudo apt-get install python3.8-pip
- verify that the file setup_ubuntu.sh has Linux line-endings (LF) and that it is executable (chmod +x setup_ubuntu.sh)
- run the file setup_ubuntu.sh and install all the dependencies with the command:
./setup_ubuntu.sh
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if the previous command is successful and has no errors, run FlatCAM with the command: python3 FlatCAM.py
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Alternatively you can install it on Ubuntu with:
# Optional if depencencies are missing
make install_dependencies
# Install for the current user only (using the folder in its place)
make install
# System-wide instalation
sudo make install
3.MacOS
Instructions from here: https://gist.github.com/natevw/3e6fc929aff358b38c0a#gistcomment-3111878
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create a folder to hold the sources somewhere on your HDD: mkdir FlatCAM
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unzip in this folder the sources downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/downloads/ Using commands (e.g using the sources for FlatCAM beta 8.991): cd ~/FlatCAM wget https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/downloads/FlatCAM_beta_8.991_sources.zip unzip FlatCAM_beta_8.991_sources.zip cd FlatCAM_beta_8.991_sources
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check if Homebrew is installed: xcode-select --install ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
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install dependencies: brew install pyqt python3 -m ensurepip python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
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run FlatCAM python3 FlatCAM.py