The cursor will change to a set of yellow crosshairs, indicating a command has been invoked and is active.
The keyboard shortcut, typing 're' activates the 'Rectangle' command. To begin with, we will draw a rectangle with dimensions of 35mm by 45mm. The underlying methods are unchanged of course. I am working in Metric, however if you choose to work in Imperial units it is easy to switch between the two units of measurement in the program Preferences. On opening QCAD the user is presented with a blank document. This enables users to get to grips with the basics, and is reasonably easy for a CAD novice to understand. QCAD is also cross-platform compatible available on Windows, Mac or Linux machines, and it includes a basic CAD -> CAM interface adequately servicing our needs.
#QCAD KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS LIST SOFTWARE#
The software is relatively inexpensive (licenses start at 33EUR) and is available for a resettable trial period. For this tutorial we will focus on QCAD by Ribbonsoft. Numerous CAD and CAM packages are available to the user, from free to painfully expensive. The simplest difference is that CAM takes work produced in CAD and uses it as the basis for a real-world manufacturing process.
CAM software on the other hand is not so familiar. Let's go!ĢD or even 3D CAD software is familiar to the majority of people, with packages like AutoCAD or TurboCAD. In the final instalment of this introductory series we will set the machine to work creating a simple truss rod cover from scratch using Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Machining (CAM) software. In the previous article about the small CNC router we set up and calibrated the CNC machine so that each axis was tuned to provide accurate and reliable operation ready for machining real life parts and components.
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