Welcome to FlatCAM’s documentation!

Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Installation
  • 2.1. Microsoft Windows
    • 2.1.1. Installing from source in Windows
  • 2.2. Linux
    • 2.2.1. Manual Installation in Linux
  • 2.3. OS-X
  • 2.4. Requirements
  • 2.5. Diagnostics Script
  • 2.6. Installing the Latest Source
• 3. Basics
  • 3.1. Source Files
  • 3.2. Objects and Tasks
  • 3.3. Creating, Saving and Loading Projects
  • 3.4. Navigating Plots
• 4. Common Procedures
  • 4.1. Isolation Routing
    • 4.1.1. Single tool-width isolation
    • 4.1.2. Wide Isolation Routing
  • 4.2. Drilling
  • 4.3. 2-side PCB
  • 4.4. Copper Area Clear
  • 4.5. Board Cutout
  • 4.6. Bed Flattening
• 5. Object Reference
  • 5.1. Gerber Object
    • 5.1.1. Format
    • 5.1.2. Support
    • 5.1.3. Creation
    • 5.1.4. Operations
  • 5.2. Excellon Object
    • 5.2.1. Format
    • 5.2.2. Support
    • 5.2.3. Overriding defaults
    • 5.2.4. Creating Excellon Objects
    • 5.2.5. Operations
  • 5.3. Geometry Object
    • 5.3.1. Creating Geometry Objects
    • 5.3.2. Operations
  • 5.4. CNC Job Object
    • 5.4.1. G-Code Format Support
    • 5.4.2. Creating CNC Job Objects
    • 5.4.3. Overriding Defaults
    • 5.4.4. Operations
• 6. Geometry Editor
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Creating New Geometry Objects
  • 6.3. Editing Existing Geometry Objects
    • 6.3.1. Selecting Shapes
    • 6.3.2. Creating Shapes
    • 6.3.3. Union
    • 6.3.4. Intersection
    • 6.3.5. Subtraction
    • 6.3.6. Cut Path
    • 6.3.7. Moving and Copying
    • 6.3.8. Cancelling an operation
    • 6.3.9. Deleting selected shapes
    • 6.3.10. Grid and Snap
    • 6.3.11. Other
• 7. Shell Command Line Interface
  • 7.1. Calling a Shell script on startup
  • 7.2. The Shell Window
  • 7.3. Shell Language
• 8. Shell Command Reference
  • 8.1. add_circle
  • 8.2. add_poly
  • 8.3. add_polyline
  • 8.4. add_rect
  • 8.5. aligndrill
  • 8.6. aligndrillgrid
  • 8.7. cncjob
  • 8.8. cutout
  • 8.9. delete
  • 8.10. drillcncjob
  • 8.11. export_gcode
  • 8.12. export_svg
  • 8.13. exteriors
  • 8.14. follow
  • 8.15. geo_union
  • 8.16. geocutout
  • 8.17. get_names
  • 8.18. help
  • 8.19. import_svg
  • 8.20. interiors
  • 8.21. isolate
  • 8.22. join_excellons
  • 8.23. join_geometries
  • 8.24. make_docs
  • 8.25. millholes
  • 8.26. mirror
  • 8.27. new
  • 8.28. new_geometry
  • 8.29. offset
  • 8.30. open_excellon
  • 8.31. open_gcode
  • 8.32. open_gerber
  • 8.33. open_project
  • 8.34. options
  • 8.35. paint_poly
  • 8.36. panelize
  • 8.37. plot
  • 8.38. save_project
  • 8.39. scale
  • 8.40. set_active
  • 8.41. set_sys
  • 8.42. subtract_poly
  • 8.43. subtract_rect
  • 8.44. write_gcode
• 9. CAD Export Guides
  • 9.1. Eagle How-to

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