I know there is another Yahoo group for this but I can't get my
messages to post there for some reason and was hoping someone here
has experience with this...
I am currently working on building my own CNC machine and I've been
researching this board and the net for about a week and I've got
some basic questions and was hoping someone here can lend me a hand?
1) I use Eagle to layout my PCB's and I outputed a job using the CAM
processor and choose Gerber as the output format. The file it
produced is formated like:
X007708Y008148D02*
The file is in inches and I was wondering how to do you read this?
Is it telling the machine to move the drill to X coordinate 007708
from the home (0) position? If so is .007708 inches away or
something else?
2) The first line in the file is x=0 and y=0 in the format above, I
am assuming its telling the drill to move to home position first.
How do you determine where that point is on a board? Is it the top
left hand corner of the board looking down on it?
3) Which axis is the X axis? I mean, is the one that moves left to
right when looking at the machine from the front?
Thanks for any help you can give...
messages to post there for some reason and was hoping someone here
has experience with this...
I am currently working on building my own CNC machine and I've been
researching this board and the net for about a week and I've got
some basic questions and was hoping someone here can lend me a hand?
1) I use Eagle to layout my PCB's and I outputed a job using the CAM
processor and choose Gerber as the output format. The file it
produced is formated like:
X007708Y008148D02*
The file is in inches and I was wondering how to do you read this?
Is it telling the machine to move the drill to X coordinate 007708
from the home (0) position? If so is .007708 inches away or
something else?
2) The first line in the file is x=0 and y=0 in the format above, I
am assuming its telling the drill to move to home position first.
How do you determine where that point is on a board? Is it the top
left hand corner of the board looking down on it?
3) Which axis is the X axis? I mean, is the one that moves left to
right when looking at the machine from the front?
Thanks for any help you can give...