Heeks / libarea

Library and python module for pocketing and profiling operations

Area

Area is a CAM-related software for pocketing operation.

This project provides library and associated python-module to compute pocket operations.

Written by Dan Heeks [e-mail], derived from the kbool library written by Klaas Holwerda

Here is some tool-path created with Pocket ( Displayed using HeeksCNC ).

Installation

Dependencies

To build libarea, you need:

• CMake
• Python (with developers files)
• Python Boost (with developers files)

Fetch sources

git clone [e-mail]:Heeks/libarea.git

Build

Under MacOSX, GNU/Linux, *BSD and probably a lot of POSIX systems

cd libarea
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr ..
make
sudo make install

Contribute

You can contribute to libarea many ways:

• Catch bugs and report them to issue tracker
• Write patches and report them on associated issue or by email
• Improve it: optimizations, build enhancements, documentation, etc. are welcome
• Package it software for your preferred distributions