An introduction to DerpCAM

An introduction to DerpCAM, a free and open-source 2.5D CAM application for Linux and other operating systems.
DerpCAM can be used to generate a toolpath suitable for LinuxCNC or GRBL based CNC machines from a DXF drawing.
DerpCAM can be downloaded from is website:
github.com/kfoltman/DerpCAM/
More videos in this series:
More DerpCAM operations: • More DerpCAM Operations.

[@roblamont5863]

This looks awesome. I'm on windows. When i can get to the PC I'll head to github to read all about it. Nice work. I accidentally stumbled upon this on Reddit. Can't post there. I've never signed up.😂

[@DuncanLaw]

Cool. i don't have a windows machine to test on. Let me know how you get on!

[@DuncanLaw]

I've had reports of someone successfully installing on Windows using the same method as the Linux instructions on the Github page.

[@roblamont5863]

The linux instructions are all new to me. I don't really understand the concept. But I'll research further.

[@stevenolson5703]

@@roblamont5863 That's where I'm at, linux newby. But I'll figure this one out for sure

[@DuncanLaw]

So i've not used Windows since Win'98 so i can't help directly...
But i'd trust the following documentation:
Installing Python3: docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html
Installing pip: packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/installing-packages/
You'll see there are Windows version of of all commands on that page.
Those are both long documents that deal with a lot of edge cases.
You should only need to follow each as far as the command documented at the "Ensure you can run pip from the command line" section of: packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/installing-packages/#ensure-you-can-run-pip-from-the-command-line
From there, i think it's going to be `py -m pip install -r requirements.txt` from whatever directory you have the DerpCAM source code in to install the dependencies.

[@8777ga]

nice ! and thanks !