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

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

or

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

Screenshots

Helix

Overcut

Tabs

Pockets

Lead-In/Lead-Out

OSX

Windows