OpenCAMLib (ocl) is a c++ library with python bindings for creating 3D toolpaths for cnc-machines such as mills and lathes. From August 2018 OpenCAMLib is released under LGPL license.
- repository https://github.com/aewallin/opencamlib
- mailing-list http://groups.google.com/group/opencamlib
- IRC-channel #cam on irc.freenode.net
- coding standard (?) http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html
to clone, build and install install the ocl.so library and camvtk.py run the following:
$ git clone git://github.com/aewallin/opencamlib.git
$ cd opencamlib
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../src
$ make (try make -j4 for a faster build if you have a multi-core machine)
$ sudo make installif you also want to build the documentation, then run:
$ make doc
$ make doc-pdfthis should create the ocl manual named "ocl-manual.pdf" in the build/doc directory
using cmake and cpack it is possible to build a binary .deb package with:
$ make packageFor uploading debian source-packages to the PPA there is also a custom target:
$ make spackageThe build directory opencamlib/build can be wiped clean ("rm -rf *") and cmake run again if/when you want a clean build.
(generate this with 'tree -dL 2'):
├── cpp_examples c++ example use of opencamlib
│ ├── point minimal example of ocl::Point
├── debian files for building a debian package
├── doc documentation (not much here yet!)
├── lib useful python helper libraries
├── scripts python scripts that test or demonstrate use of ocl
│ ├── issues
│ ├── ocode old linear octree code
│ ├── offset-ellipse relates to BullCutter drop- and push-cutter
│ ├── old
│ └── voronoi vd scripts/tests
├── src
│ ├── algo algorithms under development
│ ├── attic old deprecated code
│ ├── common common algorithms and data-structures
│ ├── cutters cutter-classes
│ ├── dropcutter drop-cutter algorithms and operations
│ ├── geo primitive geometry classes (point,triangle,stlsurf, etc.)
│ └── voronoi
├── stl STL files for testing
└── Windows Visual-studio project for building on windows(these notes are about 8 years old now and should be updated for relevant OSs)
- install 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04LTS
- run update manager and install all suggested updates. reboot.
- - using synaptic or apt-get, install the following packages(and their dependencies)
- build-essential
- cmake
- subversion
- doxygen
- texlive-latex-base
- libboost-all-dev
- - checkout ocl from svn
- instructions: http://code.google.com/p/opencamlib/source/checkout
- - in the /src directory, first run "cmake ." then "make" and then "sudo make install"
- this should build and install ocl correctly.