[sdiy] PCB Panels

[Olav Martin Kvern]

Colleagues,

Sparkfun has a tutorial on importing vector art into Eagle here:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/importing-custom-images-into-eagle/all

Illustrator can export both SVG and DXF, and Inkscape can export SVG. Both can export as high resolution bitmap graphics, if you'd rather go that route-. I do agree with Brian about the advantages of vector artwork.

It's a long shot, but if anyone ever needs scripts for exporting InDesign paths to g-code or OpenSCAD, drop me a line. I expect I could write the same for Illustrator--the scripting object model is very similar to InDesign (just buggier and less complete).

Thanks,

Ole

On 10/10/18 5:19 PM, Jason Nanna wrote:
> Not sure what you're trying to do graphically but since Kicad
> dimensions are 1:1 as long as export/import resolutions are identical,
> I just design to scale in inkscape and it comes out as a perfectly
> sized footprint.  I'm sure if you change the DPI setting in
> bitmap2component you should be able to rescale just by calculating the
> appropriate ratio.
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:00 PM Mike Beauchamp <list at mikebeauchamp.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/10/2018 04:19 PM, Jason Nanna wrote:
>>> Yes, exporting a true non-antialiased 1-bit png helps as you don’t have to rely on the threshold value in bitmap2component.  Text in particular turns out more accurately.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the tip Jason, having used bitmap2component - I haven't been
>> impressed with the results at times. Is there no threshold value in
>> bitmap2component that can equal the results of what you're getting
>> though? They must used different methods..
>>
>> I'm also sad to see that the KiCad 5 hasn't introduced a way to scale
>> graphics imported from bitmap2component as well. I believe there's a
>> website utility that can do it, but pretty lame that it's not
>> implemented in the program itself (unless I've missed it).
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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