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Hi,
GerbEx (from SourceForge) also looks very good, and can use different sized cutters for isolating and large area rubout operations.
Unfortunately in my case won’t accept the Gerber files produced by the Altium PCB editor.
GerbEx only handles some basic Gerber commands and aborts if it sees anything else and I can’t find a way of telling Altium to produce simple Gerber files.
Unfortunately support and documentation for GerbEx appears to be non-existent. Anyone had any luck with this?
By the way, I’ve modified Altium’s isolation milling example and produced good results, however I haven’t figured out a way to do rubouts (large copper area removal) or variable gap widths as yet.
Cheers,
Mark
From: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of cs6061@...
Sent: Sunday, 27 October 2013 04:06 AM
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] RE: Isolation mill software.
I have used Line Grinder on a couple of boards. It worked well for me but like any software there is some messing around until you get it figured out. It takes your Gerber and makes G-Code for your mill.
http://www.ofitselfso.com/LineGrinder/LineGrinder.php
Craig
---In homebrew_pcbs@yahoogroups.com, <eslavko@...> wrote:
< br>Hello...
I looking for isolation mill software. There are few available to do
basic isolation mill or vonroi. But I look for software that can use
different mill cutters (different width).
For example I have 4, 16 and 40 mil cutters.
I wan't to mill isolation trace with biggest mill possible. When there
are not enought space then use smaller mill. So if there are 10 mil
space I should cut 3 pass overlaped with 4 mil cutter but 20 mil space
with just two pass of 14 mil instead at least 5 pass with 4 mil.
I think this is must if I want large cooper area to be removed.
Does somebody know for that one? (I know LPKF mills use that technique)
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