Leon,
yes, could do that, but what do you use to do the isolation of the
tracks/pads etc before you turn the DXF into gcode? Thats where eagle
comes in, unless there is another means of taking a DXF and doing the
isolation run.
Roger
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Leon Heller"
<leon_heller@h...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ralucas4277" <ralucas4277@y...>
> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 12:51 PM
> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Gerber > Eagle
>
>
> > Hi Leon,
> >
> > The reason is that EasyPC does not produce a track/pad outline
file
> > which can be converted into a gcode file for running on the mill.
> > Eagle does, in fact there is a ulp file available for Eagle which
> > converts the imported gerber (in script form) to gcode directly. I
> > agree, though, Eagle is quirky, hence my question. EasyPC 6 is a
nice
> > program and highly intuitive, Eagle is tortuous. Maybe someone
knows
> > how to turn an extended gerber into gcode without Eagle or Deskpcb
> > (expensive).
>
> Another idea! Convert Gerber to DXF then convert that to Gcode. I
think
> there is free software around for both these steps.
>
> Leon