Creating Machines - sliptonic/FreeCAD GitHub Wiki

It may be tempting to create machine definitions for machines widely available in the marketplace. This is probably a mistake. Instead, we should provide sufficient examples which the user can easily adapt to their specific needs.

As the Machine API matures, having a large collection of machines that must be maintained and tested will create friction to development.

Instead, users should be encouraged to create these machines themselves and share them directly or through the addon manager.

Stock Machines provided should include:

• Generic_XYZ
• Generic_laser
• Generic_plasma

As new functionality is developed, we can include machine configurations to expose it

• Generic_XYZA
• Generic_XYZAC