I'll look into it - thanks. I know very little about the specifics of
HPGL, but it sounds like the way to go, here. The physical stepper
driver is very easy since these are very small steppers. I'll have to
pull the pcb, but I wouldn't be surprised if I could hack into the
pcb and use the on board stepper drivers.
Mark
At 02:22 PM 2/27/2013, you wrote:
> >drawing the traces down the middle of the designed trace. The width
> >of the trace could be controlled by using different needles on the
> >dispenser or controlling the air pressure.
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>Mark, why not output the HPGL in 'multiline' format, with fixed pen width?
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> >I'm willing to rip out the electronics and make my own stepper
> >drivers, but I'd like to know what software I would use to run the
> >converted machine, presumably using some form of HPGL. Does anyone
> >know how this would be done?
>
>Kcam4 is free and good for controlling a standard stepper driver.
>Cristian
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