What type of driller? Are you talking about just drilling the pads & holes? Or, are you talking about a board milling machine?
Usually, board milling machines will take the Gerber & process it specifically for the milling machine. As for a hole drilling machine, the 1 of the generated drill files might already be in a suitable format for the machine. Remember, Protel generates (if I remember correctly) a .drl, a .drr & a .txt which all contain the drill data. The .txt file should be somewhere close to HPGL & Gerber. It's basically a set of x&y coordinates. ____________ Brian Guralnick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Comedy clips: ftp://ftp.point-lab.com/quartus/Public/MP3/Simpsons-FatFingers.mp3 -53K ftp://ftp.point-lab.com/quartus/Public/MP3/Simpsons-Moe-LieDetector.mp3 -166K RedDwarf fans only - Year 8 - Shrink Kryten interview... ftp://ftp.point-lab.com/quartus/Public/MP3/Shrink-Kryten-16kbit.mp3 -450K ftp://ftp.point-lab.com/quartus/Public/MP3/Shrink-Kryten-48kbit.mp3 -1.4M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Florian Finsterbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: [PEDA] Software for Isolation Milling | We are considering to build some prototype PCBs by isolation milling. | Has anybody got experience which software is suitable to generate HPGL- or DXF-Files for the drilling machine from our Protel 99 SE | Gerber-Files? | Is there some free or cheap software available? | | Thank you for all of your help! | | Florian Finsterbusch | | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
