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Subject: Re: Excellon Drill Files

From: "Phil Mattison" <mattison20@...>
Date: 2007-01-29

Well, not quite. You have to move the decimal to the left three places on
every X/Y coordinate. Word doesn't know how to do that. You could manually
edit the G6 codes to one of the RS274NGC drill cycles but if I have to
automate some of it, might as well automate all.
--
Phil Mattison
http://www.ohmikron.com/
Motors::Drivers::Controllers::Software

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Mucha <dave_mucha@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:19 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Excellon Drill Files

>
> Mils are inches. so that part is easy.
>
> You should be able to open it in WORD, then just search and replace
> the code words you want.
>
> Dave
>
>