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

I'm still fine tuning my milling process but its working really well so far.
http://www.allthingsrc.com/cnc/pcb_3.jpg <--cut with 45deg bit
http://www.allthingsrc.com/cnc/pcb_3.jpg <--cut with 90deg bit

Matt

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "byron.woltman" <brian.volken@...> wrote:
>
> Craig,
> My first milled PCB seemed to take F-O-R-E-V-E-R to mill. Turned-out
> the Gcode was not at all optimized. After running the Gcode through an
> optimizer, my milling time was cut by 60-70%. See my blog entry for
> details
> <http://woodworkerbcncrouterproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/gcode-optimizat\
> ion.html> . If it works for your Gcode, it would be totally worth the
> effort.
> The results of your milling look outstanding. I tend to get a lot of
> "curling" of the copper
> <http://woodworkerbcncrouterproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/pcb-milling-att\
> empt-2.html> at the edges - not sure if it the tool or some operator
> issue. I still need a lot more milling experience, to be sure.
>
> WoodWorkerB
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "designer_craig" <cs6061@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have the cut rate fairly low so it took 16 minutes for the top side
> and 25 minutes for the bottom side. For some reason there were a lot of
> small cuts on the bottom side related to the copper pour that slowed
> things down.
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>