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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: thinking of routing....

2010-09-07 by Herbert E. Plett

VISOLATE?
went to the pages, saw the pictures and find it more than interesting.
now, downloaded the file but there is no documentation whatsoever and I have no clue as how to start it.
any help, PLEASE..



> One stumbling block is the software to generate tool paths.
> It can be 
> quite expensive. The free offerings are generally rather
> quirky. I quite 
> like Visolate <http://sourceforge.net/projects/visolate/> though it
> 
> takes some trial and error to get it working correctly.
> Instead of 
> slavishly following the track outlines it calculates the
> minimum cut 
> length to achieve the desired connectivity. The resultant
> tracks look 
> odd but it works well. Cutting time and cutter wear is
> considerably less 
> than most other methods. There are some pics here 
> <http://www.mit.edu/~vona/Visolate/Visolate-info.html>.
> Visolate won't 
> do the drilling.

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