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Newbie PCB Question

2006-03-25 by aggie_672000

Just finished my first toner transfer board which has made me think
maybe a CNC routed board would be better. Am retired on a minimum
budget so like free software:

Saw a lot of people use Eagle, but afterlooking at the Eagle website
wondered if the free version is only good for making one board or did
I misread? With my learning curve it would take 10-20 attempts to get
my first board.

The PCB's I am interested in making at present are predrawn in a PDF
file for toner transfer. Is it possible to modify these for milling?

After I get a drawing in the right format for milling, what program is
used to generate G code etc.? At present am using A9CAD to make
drawing, ACE to convert to g code, then Mach3 to control my router.

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