Homebrew PCBs

Leon,

yes, could do that, but what do you use to do the isolation of the 
tracks/pads etc before you turn the DXF into gcode? Thats where eagle 
comes in, unless there is another means of taking a DXF and doing the 
isolation run.

Roger


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Leon Heller" 
<leon_heller@h...> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ralucas4277" <ralucas4277@y...>
> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 12:51 PM
> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Gerber > Eagle
> 
> 
> > Hi Leon,
> >
> > The reason is that EasyPC does not produce a track/pad outline 
file
> > which can be converted into a gcode file for running on the mill.
> > Eagle does, in fact there is a ulp file available for Eagle which
> > converts the imported gerber (in script form) to gcode directly. I
> > agree, though, Eagle is quirky, hence my question. EasyPC 6 is a 
nice
> > program and highly intuitive, Eagle is tortuous. Maybe someone 
knows
> > how to turn an extended gerber into gcode without Eagle or Deskpcb
> > (expensive).
> 
> Another idea! Convert Gerber to DXF then convert that to Gcode. I 
think
> there is free software around for both these steps.
> 
> Leon