Hi Alan,
TCI makes three Gerber files. One of them has the
pads and traces. When I plot the Gerber I get lots of
BLUE lines. Red is cut and blue is travel. When I see
more BLUE than Red I quit. I like my machine to spend
it's time cutting not traveling all over. Most program
that do outlines of traces are bogus. There are several
new ones coming out. Big money! A very simple program to write. I
think the cost is high because there are so few PCBMills in
use. They are very expensive to buy. I got laughed at last
year when I came out with my plans. Now there are several
people with homemade PCBMills. Here is your chance to get
in on the fun!
John
TCI makes three Gerber files. One of them has the
pads and traces. When I plot the Gerber I get lots of
BLUE lines. Red is cut and blue is travel. When I see
more BLUE than Red I quit. I like my machine to spend
it's time cutting not traveling all over. Most program
that do outlines of traces are bogus. There are several
new ones coming out. Big money! A very simple program to write. I
think the cost is high because there are so few PCBMills in
use. They are very expensive to buy. I got laughed at last
year when I came out with my plans. Now there are several
people with homemade PCBMills. Here is your chance to get
in on the fun!
John
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I haven't played with KCam enough, I guess. I gave it a Gerber
file,
> but I didn't see anything (graphics), just a few random lines. I
looked
> at the Gcode in the window, but wasn't sure about it. It had "M3
Z1"
> and "M5 Z.5" between EACH cut! So I can see why you said it takes
a LOT
> of lines! I'm probably doing something wrong, or my "fake" RS-274X
> header is incorrect.
>
> I have an OLD demo, no Gcode save (I believe).
>
> Alan KM6VV
>
>
>
> crankorgan wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> > I turned a trace into a ruler at the bottom
> > of the drawing. This way I could figure out what scaling
> > to use. I found the KCam left out some traces. So much for
> > that idea. This works with that, but it don't work with
> > this! KCam only imports and it saves GCode. I just
> > use an old version to plot and scale my DXF. I then save
> > them as GCode. Works great! I wish somebody would make
> > a simple drawing program that saves in GCode.
> >
> > John
> >
> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...>
wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > >
> > > KCam! OK, now I remember you saying you used it. Can KCam then
> > export
> > > in DXF? Sounds like a plan. Let me know how it turns out. I'd
> > like to
> > > see the results.
> > >
> > > Alan KM6VV