Hi,
Thanks for the info. This sort of environment might be exactly what
I'm looking for.
Kevin
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, DJ Delorie <dj@...> wrote:
>
>
> "Kevin Morgan" <prizes@...> writes:
> > Do you happen to know whether anyone uses gEDA and PCB to mill
> > circuit boards (that is, isolation routing)?
>
> There's someone working on DXF export, which is the first step. But
> if you have something that works from gerbers, pcb can produce those
> (duh).
>
> PCB has a plugin interface that lets you add more exporters (or
other
> functionality[∗]) without recompiling pcb itself, so if you know how
> to do isolation milling "in general", it should be easy to apply it
to
> pcb's internal data structure. We have a polygon clipping module,
> too, so you could in theory start with "everything" and clip out all
> the copper you want to keep, and use the resulting set of polygons
to
> drive the cutter. I'm just guessing on that, since I'm not familiar
> with the clipper's internals.
>
> But none of us have mills, so we haven't worked on it yet ;-)
>
> [∗] http://www.delorie.com/pcb/ has my RenumberBlock and Teardrops
> plugins, for example.
>