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RE: Hello Shapeoko
alot of the programs I have seen are 2.5D in the sense that you cannot take e.g. a basrelief and do a path of that. fusion 360 does that and more and it might still become the one I choose. i want to try out some different options first though as I am an accomplished blender user so i really dont need all the fancy modelling that comes with fusion 360. i only need a good toolpath planner. Freecad is fairly nice as well but needs Opencamlib installed to be able to do 3d toolpaths
I would like to clarify... What I meant to say is that you can import some arbitrary STL into Fusion 360 and generate your gcode. Fusion can generate parallel toolpaths just fine and you don't even have to convert your STL to BRep. It easily produces toolpaths with smoothly varying Z value. And yes, it does work for basreliefs, I tested it myself :) Also, you don't really have to design your 3D model in Fusion, you can use Blender or any other editor you like.
that's exactly what i need. i guess i will have to overcome my dislike for Autodesk and give it a swing. thanks