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how I got FlatCAM 8.1 working on OS X [a long time ago — see comment thread for lots of good tips from others!]
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| brew update | |
| brew install pyqt geos spatialindex | |
| easy_install pip | |
| pip install virtualenv | |
| cd Development/Others\'/ | |
| mkdir FlatCAM | |
| cd FlatCAM | |
| virtualenv env | |
| source env/bin/activate | |
| pip install numpy matplotlib rtree scipy shapely simplejson | |
| # copy contents of FlatCAM_8.1.zip into FlatCAM folder | |
| python FlatCAM.py |
I'm just returning to it to try and overcome some quality issues with making PCBs using my laser.
Burning the mask by converting a raster image in lightburn is not great quality as the image is broken up into scan lines which appear as aliasing in the track outlines. So I figured I'd try using an isolation milling toolpath instead. The only issue is that EasyEDA does not export milling tool paths so I need to convert the gerbers using something like flatcam. I did look at pcb2gcode but I'm on a mac, so options are somewhat limited.
I run pcb2gcode on a Mac. 👍🏻
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@DeeEmm glad it helped. I stopped using FlatCam. Too buggy and crashy. Depending on what you're trying to do... https://github.com/thomergil/pcb-nomad3