Brian,
Actually, when we used the Isolation S/W, it was for a New Hermes Vangard
7000 plotter/miller. It is usually used for sign making, but because it has
the variable speed armature in Z axis and accepts HPGL input, that's what we
used to iso-route PCBs. T-Tech has their own miller/plotter with a
proprietary file exchange, but the S/W exports the isolation routing path
into both DXF and HPGL. We also had some conversion S/W with our plotter to
go from DXF or HPGL to their own file system, but we never used it.
Regards,
GE Energy Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:05 AM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Software for Isolation Milling
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.
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Brian Guralnick
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----- 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
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