Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Lol I can see I'm going to have fun over the next week or so with this
new plotter........

One idea that has just comeint my head was to cover the board with a
resist and build a scratching pen from one of the empty pens and a
diamond tip from one of those emergency window hammers you see in
busses / trains etc. can be bought very cheap from one of those $1/£1
shops that seem to spring up here and their.



Vector format, well I know diptrace can export in gerber and dxf, but
I am 'printing' it in bmp and then loading that into a hpgl
conversion, which is freeware with 15 runtimes so the first thing I
have outputted is the current board I am working with to a file, in
both normal and mirroed and outline/outline mirrored.

Odd thing, I also downloaded a hpgl viewer, and this 'file' of hpgl
commands looks just like the board (go figure) but all the other files
I have had from other software (winline etc) DONT view, maybe thats
why my calcomp never plotted, maybe the 'files' are still wrong

I've probably condemend that plotter for no reason other than I dont
have the correctly formatted files it expects to see, oh well, such is
life, one day nearer to the new one arriving...