viaConstructor

OpenSource CAM-Tool to generate gCode from DXF,SVG,CDR,HPGL-Files and more

Features:

running on Linux (incl. Raspberry PI 4), OS-X (Intel-Only) and Windows
3D-Preview
Tabs and Pockets with Islands
Headless-Support to generate gcode on the console
the preview of the milling path is generated by the original gcode data using a simple gcode-interpreter
the offsets are calculated internaly, no offset-support in the cnc controller is needed
automatic offset finder (inside/outside)
automatic order of multiple parts (nearest first)
nested parts will milled in the right order (inside parts first)
can read DXF, SVG, HPGL and STL (cross section)
can also convert and read (limited support) CDR, PDF, EPS and some raster-image's
Truetype-Fonts to generate simple Text
generates gCode and HPGL output

Known Issues:

SVG-Support is very bad, better using DXF
>= Python-3.9 (will not work with Debian-10 or lower)
may be unstable on Windows
problems with some OpenGL versions (black 3D-View)
tabs on circles sometimes broken
slow on very big files

demo-video

screenshot

viaconstructor

quikstart

for Debian11/12 and Ubuntu 22.04:

download the right package from: https://multixmedia.org/debian-packages

and install with

apt-get install python3-viaconstructor_*.deb

install with pip

pip3 install viaconstructor

running from sources

git clone https://github.com/multigcs/viaconstructor.git
cd viaconstructor
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

start viaconstructor

./bin/viaconstructor tests/data/simple.dxf

running on macos/osx

brew install python@3.10
git clone https://github.com/multigcs/viaconstructor.git
cd viaconstructor
/usr/local/bin/python3 -m pip install -r requirements-install.txt
/usr/local/bin/python3 -m viaconstructor tests/data/simple.dxf

running on Windows10

you can simply extract this zip file to you disk and execute the start.bat:

https://www.multixmedia.org/viaconstructor.zip

this zip-file includes python3.10.10 and all needed packages

install python3.10.10 from: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.10/python-3.10.10-amd64.exe install git from: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.40.0.windows.1/Git-2.40.0-64-bit.exe at the moment, you need also Visual Studio Community 2022 from: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/ (to install pyclipper / some dll's needed for CavalierContours)

git clone https://github.com/multigcs/viaconstructor.git
python3.exe -m pip install -r requirements-install.in
python3.exe -m viaconstructor tests/data/simple.dxf