On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:02:15 -0000, jackafaz <
greeneaz@...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I contacted Rod Grantham of www.granthams.com who sells a uv
> curable pattern resin. I thought that there might be a chance that
> one could use a plotter to draw the lines on the copper and when done
> expose the board to uv to set the resin. I recieve the following
> reply and thought that his info might be valuable to those of you
> working on this problem. I am going to see if I can locate some of
> the ink he mentions and give it a try.
>
> Jack
>
Even if you get rid of all the problems with the pen and the ink
and the line width and the layer thickness the plotting is still very,
very slow.
(i mean really slow).
I also could not manage to plot a pcb with the holes in the pads
open (for centering the drill) which quite annoyed me...
I tried it for a while, and was not satisfied, not at all.
TT delivers better results much faster and easier for me.
The plotter is still a good choice for component legend.
(But i did not yet bring my libs up to it and i also don't require
it for my own boards...
- after all it adds not much functionality to the circuit itself ;-) )
ST