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Subject: Re: CNC

From: "Andrew" <andrewm1973@...>
Date: 2006-07-17

>> Me wrote:
>> Looks like it already mills PCBs ???

> Christian wrote:
> Yes, it mills, but I need to feed it with
> something like BMP instead of HPGL. It
> seems is hard to find a bmp to hpgl
> transformer. Any idea here is welcome.

http://timeguy.com/cradek/image-to-gcode

One of the guys that does a lot of stuff
with the Linux EMC thing has a BMP to G
code page.

Does not look very Windoze friendly though.

But realy - BMP to HPGL should be a no-
brainer shoudlnt it ? Raster to a whole
lot of horizontal vectors.