Kiri:Moto, a web-brower-based CAM tool, has been around for a long time—but it just got a refresh improving UI and adding new modes of operation.
I became aware of it when I was trying to find something that would create tool paths for a complex shape, and several other CAM tools were failing. Kiri:Moto handled it successfully. It has improved in the years since then. It deserves to be better known than it is.
As a CAM tool, it's had 2.5D CAM for a long time, and about a year ago added basic 4th axis support (indexing and lathe modes). It has also had a laser mode, which in the past few years additionally supported drag knives, and has also supported both FFF/FDM and SLA (resin) 3d printing.
The new 4.0 release has a much more discoverable UI than earlier versions, moved drag knives out into their own mode, and added support both for waterjet and wire EDM CAM. (If you have pre-ordered a RackRobo Betta open source EDM, it's already supported in Kiri:Moto!)
It has in the past worked only in a browser — though not sending any of your data to the cloud, keeping all of your data in your browser locally, doing all the computation inside the browser. With 4.0, you can download a separate app (it's an "Electron app" that bundles the software with a browser, like a lot of other apps these days) which will enable more local features in the future.
If you've used earlier versions of Kiri:Moto, this Kiri:moto forum post describes the UI changes.
For those of us interested in the software side, it's open source under the MIT license.
I became aware of it when I was trying to find something that would create tool paths for a complex shape, and several other CAM tools were failing. Kiri:Moto handled it successfully. It has improved in the years since then. It deserves to be better known than it is.
As a CAM tool, it's had 2.5D CAM for a long time, and about a year ago added basic 4th axis support (indexing and lathe modes). It has also had a laser mode, which in the past few years additionally supported drag knives, and has also supported both FFF/FDM and SLA (resin) 3d printing.
The new 4.0 release has a much more discoverable UI than earlier versions, moved drag knives out into their own mode, and added support both for waterjet and wire EDM CAM. (If you have pre-ordered a RackRobo Betta open source EDM, it's already supported in Kiri:Moto!)
It has in the past worked only in a browser — though not sending any of your data to the cloud, keeping all of your data in your browser locally, doing all the computation inside the browser. With 4.0, you can download a separate app (it's an "Electron app" that bundles the software with a browser, like a lot of other apps these days) which will enable more local features in the future.
If you've used earlier versions of Kiri:Moto, this Kiri:moto forum post describes the UI changes.
For those of us interested in the software side, it's open source under the MIT license.
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