FreeCad is a really great tool. I have a video tutorial that works with the current version (a lot of the tutorials don't work because they are based on older versions).
The pull request was merged last week. The new feature should be showing up in the daily builds now. I'm sure it still has bugs but should produce a usable path for basic use-cases. Please report bugs and issues on the Path section of the forum.
@@sliptonic I updated it and tested it out in FreeCAD. I did not cut it yet but it looks good. I did find that it wouldn't work with a more elaborate font (carnivalle freakshow). I think the font had artifacts that were not around the letter edge. I got it to work with the coolvetica font. I will let you know how the cutting goes when I get a change to do it.
@@Adventuresincreation the feature is new and certainly has some bugs. We'll continue to improve it as we go. There are a couple settings that you can play with. The tolerance controls how intermediate lines are filtered and can make a big difference
It needs a closed perimeter. Text fonts work well because each letter is a closed loop that might contain internal loops. But any closed loop is a possibility.
If would be a new command tool in Path workbench. It requires openvoronoi and the packaging for that is still not friendly for py3. But the command is basically done and available in my github repo (branch feature/vcarve) if you want to build manually. Hopefully openvoronoi will get smoothed out soon and I can merge this to master.
Why do you assume that the video is meant for you? I make videos both for end-users and also to engage other developers and power users. This feature isn't ready for release yet which is why it's a 'teaser' video. When the feature is released, I'll do another video explaining exactly how to use it.
