Homebrew PCBs

I run CNCPro and it does arcs very fast. The whole idea is to make
a board in Eagle and then cut it out. If it flys then the artwork goes
off to the PC House. I did square and six sided pads on my first
boards that I sold. (Piker 3 and Piker 4X) The slow down is caused by
the traveling salesman syndrome. When you convert the Eagle BRD to
GCode you will get a trace cut then the machine will travel across the
board and do a second one instead of doing one next to the first. When
I do a board with TurboCad I make a trace of the artwork in the order
I want it cut. After it get converted there is no extra traveling. I
get a very quick GCode. But in this case I am using Eagle to make the
code.  


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, cristian <cristianbip@b...> wrote:
>
> If you will design square or rectangle pads and will add square to each 
> track's corner, the CNC
> will spend less time to mill   (only X and Y movement instead of arcs).
> Cristian
> 
> 
> At 03:17 PM 12/24/2005, you wrote:
> >   From Eagle to a finished board in less than 1 hour each.
>