Easel – Inventables’ Free, Easy to Use, Web-based CNC CAM Opens to All Users #cnc #3DThursday
Zach Kaplan announced yesterday at MakerCon that Easel, Inventables‘ free, easy to use, web-based CNC CAM software, has been opened up to all users!
Check out the announcement above and the first interview from MAKE below for news from the MakerCon event:
…Launched to a very limited number of users at SXSW in March, Easel works with Inventables’ Shapeoko CNC machine, allowing for fast design in a variety of materials and one-button simplicity. The company has slowly added additional testers while making sure that the software continued to perform safely and securely.
They’ve also been adding new functionalities, including an “open-in-Easel” button on the Inventables project pages, and a mirroring capability for creating inverse designs. Kaplan describes some of these latest features added to Easel, and shows off their latest rubber stamp project capability.
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