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John,

>I wish somebody would make
>a simple drawing program that saves in GCode.

We're working on it....

Dave

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., "crankorgan" <john@k...> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> I turned a trace into a ruler at the bottom
> of the drawing. This way I could figure out what scaling
> to use. I found the KCam left out some traces. So much for
> that idea. This works with that, but it don't work with
> this! KCam only imports and it saves GCode. I just
> use an old version to plot and scale my DXF. I then save
> them as GCode. Works great! I wish somebody would make
> a simple drawing program that saves in GCode.
>
> John
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > KCam! OK, now I remember you saying you used it. Can KCam then
> export
> > in DXF? Sounds like a plan. Let me know how it turns out. I'd
> like to
> > see the results.
> >
> > Alan KM6VV
> >
> >
> > crankorgan wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Alan,
> > > After I made a test board. I then saved it to a
directory.
> > > Then I found when I clicked on Gerber a set of Gerber files
> > > appeared in that directory. I was then able to import one of
them
> > > into KCam. In KCam I might be able to rescale the drawing
> > > to inches. If I get time I will give it a shot.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...>
> wrote:
> > > > Hi John,
> > > >
> > > > No, I hadn't seen target. Similar to Eagle? 100 pins limit,
> might
> > > be a
> > > > little tight. I'm thinking that I will probably upgrade on
> Eagle,
> > > IF I
> > > > can ever get time to learn it!
> > > >
> > > > Inches WOULD be easier! I can get the MM/IN translation done
by
> > > Vector
> > > > CAD/CAM, and I'm thinking I can put a parm in my program to
do
> it
> > > for
> > > > me.
> > > >
> > > > What sort of board did you do in TCI? Which output did you
use?
> > > I've
> > > > posted a simple TCI file of a trace with it's corresponding
> > > (generated)
> > > > CNC file.
> > > >
> > > > Alan KM6VV John