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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Any way to adjust scale of NC drill file

From: Harvey White <madyn@...>
Date: 2014-10-29

On 28 Oct 2014 20:04:23 -0700, you wrote:

>Thanks very much Harvey.
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> I found a way to do it better than just general scaling.
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> Diptrace can export the holes part of the file as a DXF so I did that.

EAGLE may be able to do that as well, so this method may be useful to
others who use it. Nice solution.

Right now, I manually drill the holes, although CNC drilling may be in
the works.

Harvey

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> The vertical and horizontal measurements (on my actual board) were out of scale by slightly different amounts so I needed to scale them independently. Brought the DXF into a cad program then scaled X and Y axis independantly and now have a hole drilling drawing of the perfect dimensions.
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> Import the new DXF into my cam software and good to go.
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> Keith.