CamBam is really easy to use: http://cambam.info/ It doesn't support true automated V-Carving for text/images though if that's what you're after. You can tell it to follow a profile/line with your v-bit. Source: about 1 year ago

If it's a simple DXF or a 2.5D part CamBam is free to try and works well: http://cambam.info/. Source: almost 3 years ago

There are two Rust projects working on parametric kernels I'm aware of. The first one, Truck[1] seems to have a company behind it, Ricos Ltd, that look like they to know what they're doing[2]. The tweet shows their product using functionality from Truck (the frontend is not OSS AFAIK). Fornjot is an ambitious project IMHO. Their kernel is in a separate crate[3]. As for OSS code that could be a good base to either... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

> NURBS usually requires relatively specialized libraries[0], which don't exist (at high enough quality) in the open source community. There is fully opensource cross-platform NURBS modeler — Ayam.[0] But Ayam looks not NOT user friendly. Also there are FreeShip Plus[2] and gCAD3D[3]. [0] http://ayam.sourceforge.net/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lOSrxl6qyA [2]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago