I have done a couple of pcb's this way; the results are good enough; actually it all depends on the quality of your milling machine, mine was not so good so I had some distorsions, but the code itself is right. The exporter takes each copper layer, enlarges the traces to take into account the radius of the milling tool, extracts all the edges and puts them in g-code format. You don't have to pre-process your design, and the g-code file has variables that let you adapt to various machines, for example you may want to change depths or feedrates. All the confusion about this exporter comes from the lack of documentation; when I posted the code I also added some documentation but the latter was never accepted in the main repository so this is the result: people trying to replicate a function that is already there, or worse stating that milling cannot be done with PCB.
2010/11/1 John Griessen <[email protected]>: > On 11/01/2010 04:27 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: >> >> Didn't notice the "Enhancements for gEDA/pcb G-code export" thread? > > Oh yes. It's great that you are working on this. > > It's just not ready for him to use I though, Is it? > Did you already get circuit prototyping results > with that? > > JG > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
