On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Dave McGuire wrote: >On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Bob Paddock wrote: >> What I always wonder about with these tools, or similar X/Y >> machines is why >> no one ever optimizes the travel to save time. Seems like it >> should be simple >> mater of sorting the vectors? Instead the machine goes at random from >> place to place. > > Years ago, I wrote a bunch of code which generated HPGL to drive a >plotter. I sorted the vectors for exactly this reason. It made a >BIG difference in plot time.
Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scriptable PCB project. > > -Dave > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
