I had a PCB made via CNC recently, we used pcb2gcode [Sourceforge] to convert Gerber to Gcode for use with EMC2 and a CNC. Getting the Gerber and drill files to be in the right orientation and aligned proved somewhat tricky.
PCBNEW does odd things with coordinates, I found setting the auxiliary axis to the lower left of the board helped a lot. Set the "use aux axis" checkbox in the plot dialogs. This put all coordinates starting (0,0) in the positive quadrant. If I was doing it again I would try GCAM, but for me the quality/effort ratio of CNC boards is not high enough. --- In [email protected], "Daniel" <dandu...@...> wrote: > > I have been fighting with this problem some time ago. > > Converting gerber to G-code isn't that easy. > If you are running on linux : http://gcam.js.cx/index.php/Main_Page it seems > to be a good solution.
