Hi John,
If you have Sheetcam, I'm fairly sure that it can take in drill files
and produce G code for Mach3 or LinuxCNC.
Cheers,
Peter
On 2/11/2022 8:19 am, John Dammeyer wrote:
I needed a small PC board. I converted the short drill file .txt over to G-Code .nc
or .tap. Took a few
On 11/1/22 16:58, andy pugh wrote:
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 21:23, John Dammeyer wrote:
Anyway. Does anyone know of a Protel 99SE drill file conversion program
to G-Code for CNC?
I found this: https://github.com/DJ027X/drl2ngc
But looking at the code I am not sure it copes with lines that
> From: gene heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net]
> On 11/1/22 17:21, John Dammeyer wrote:
> > I needed a small PC board. I converted the short drill file .txt over to
> > G-Code .nc or .tap. Took a few tries to
> get it right for LinuxCNC which complained about a few things that MACH3
>
On 11/1/22 17:21, John Dammeyer wrote:
I needed a small PC board. I converted the short drill file .txt over to G-Code .nc
or .tap. Took a few tries to get it right for LinuxCNC which complained about a
few things that MACH3 didn't. Ended up using the CNC router with MACH3 because the
Whenever I need to do this, I just export as DXF and use the standard
drilling tools in Cut2D .. works a treat, has automatic drill diameter
recognition etc.
Last board I drilled was 400 holes in some Rogers RO4003C ... and then I
did DIY plated through holes :)
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 21:20,
Don't really need the hole carving feature either. From what I can see it
doesn't use the G81 either so results in a much bigger program.
There are programs that use V bits and carve out around traces. I have the
bits but my CNC router is too shaky and not precise enough (yet) for that
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 21:23, John Dammeyer wrote:
>
> Anyway. Does anyone know of a Protel 99SE drill file conversion program
> to G-Code for CNC?
I found this: https://github.com/DJ027X/drl2ngc
But looking at the code I am not sure it copes with lines that have a Y
coordinate but no X
I needed a small PC board. I converted the short drill file .txt over to
G-Code .nc or .tap. Took a few tries to get it right for LinuxCNC which
complained about a few things that MACH3 didn't. Ended up using the CNC router
with MACH3 because the router can do 20,000 RPM while my mill is
