I recently bought and assembled the CNC3018. I have never owned a CNC before and I was unpleasantly surprised by the lack of free and easy to use software to produce CNC jobs. So I had to learn FreeCAD, the only open source software known to me which can be used for this purpose. In this post I added the two types of tool bits supplied with the CNC to FreeCAD's library and I will attempt to produce various jobs in future posts.
CNC machining is a complex process and its workflow depends on a lot of interrelated parameters unknown to beginners. Setting them properly is an absolute requirement to complete a CNC job without breaking valid bits, ruining the work piece or damaging the machine.
