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Alan,
    Check this one out. The software!


http://www.epsilon-international.com/Products/products.html

                                      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