Homebrew PCBs

Craig,
My first milled PCB seemed to take F-O-R-E-V-E-R to mill.  Turned-out
the Gcode was not at all optimized.  After running the Gcode through an
optimizer, my milling time was cut by 60-70%.  See my blog entry for
details
<http://woodworkerbcncrouterproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/gcode-optimizat\
ion.html>  .   If it works for your Gcode, it would be totally worth the
effort.
The results of your milling look outstanding.  I tend to get a lot of
"curling" of the copper
<http://woodworkerbcncrouterproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/pcb-milling-att\
empt-2.html>  at the edges - not sure if it the tool or some operator
issue.  I still need a lot more milling experience, to be sure.

WoodWorkerB

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "designer_craig" <cs6061@...>
wrote:
>
> I have the cut rate fairly low so it took 16 minutes for the top side
and 25 minutes for the bottom side.  For some reason there were a lot of
small cuts on the bottom side related to the copper pour that slowed
things down.
>
> Craig
>




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