FreazyKam Help#
FreazyKam turns a drawing into G-code for your CNC router. It runs in your browser. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded.
New here?#
Make your first part: a coaster, from a blank screen to a G-code file, in about 10 minutes.
Find what you need#
| I want to… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Learn the app step by step | Tutorials |
| Get a job done right now | How-to guides |
| Look up a setting, a tool type or a message | Reference |
| Understand why something works the way it does | Explanations |
| Read the full manual, chapter by chapter | User guide |
Tutorials#
Follow these from start to finish. Each one makes one thing.
- Make your first part: a coaster with a recess and tabs
- Carve a picture in 3D: a relief plaque from a greyscale image
- Run your first job on the machine: FluidNC over WiFi
How-to guides#
Short steps for one task.
Set up
- Set up your stock
- Set your work origin (X0 Y0 Z0)
- Add a tool
- Import a maker's tool catalogue
- Tune feeds and speeds for your machine
- Move your settings to another computer
Draw
- Draw a shape
- Import a drawing or model
- Select exactly what you want
- Move, resize and rotate
- Group parts together
- Keep a part a set distance from another
- Draw with the pen
- Edit points on a path
- Combine, offset, pattern and round shapes
- Copy parts between projects
Cut
- Cut out a part
- Add holding tabs
- Clear a pocket
- Cut a slot
- Drill holes
- Flatten your stock
- V-carve lettering
- Carve a photo
- Make an inlay
- Carve a 3D model (STL)
- Cut into the floor of a pocket
- Change the cut order
- Add or remove paths from an operation
- Nest parts on a sheet
Make parts
Check and export
Run the machine (FluidNC)
- Install the relay file (once)
- Connect to your machine
- Home and zero
- Find Z with a touch plate
- Jog the machine
- Turn the map to match where you sit
- Send and run a job
- Pause, stop or end a job early
- Change speed during a job
- Save G-code as a macro
- Fix a weak WiFi link
Reference#
Facts in tables. For looking things up, not reading through.
- The screen
- Keyboard and mouse
- Operations and their settings
- Tool types and the tool table
- Materials and machine rigidity
- Chip load and feeds
- Shapes and parts
- Escapement settings
- Post-processor settings
- Machine tab controls
- File formats
- Messages and what to do
- Glossary
Explanations#
The "why" behind the app, for when you want to work things out yourself.
- Where zero is, and how depth is measured
- Cut side: why parts come out the wrong size
- Open and closed paths
- Climb vs conventional milling
- Chip load: why slower can be worse
- The five pocket strategies
- How V-carving works
- Why inlays fit
- How 3D carving works
- Operations, the program and stale toolpaths
- Nesting for a usable offcut
- How an escapement works
- Gears and clock trains
- Why the machine needs a relay file
- What a simulation can't tell you
Units: the app stores everything in millimetres. The mm / in button in the toolbar only changes what you see and type, so you can switch at any time.