Homebrew PCBs

Hey John,
One minor problem I've found with KCam is the lack of tool path offset, the
cutter C/L now follows the edge of a design element such as a trace or pad.
The larger your cutter, the smaller your pads and traces are going to be...
which may not be a problem unless you want to do a tool change and use a
larger mill for quicker and larger isolation areas on a board that also has
some tight spots.
I've exchanged E-mails with Kelly and he is working on including tool
offsets in a future version KCam.
Denny



At 02:00 AM 04/18/2002 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>       I just uploaded a small PCBoard I did in TurboCad. It is
>a pure DXF that can be imported into KCam or other GCODE converters. 
>If you import the file into KCam you will see my milling method. I
>go around and overlap each trace. You will also see the dots that 
>cause the mill to pre-drill holes. The file is a TRACE of my artwork.
>After I draw the PCBoard outline file. I trace it in an efficent 
>mannor. This cuts down milling time. That PCB take 40 minutes at 6"
>per minute.
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