Re: PCB milling - getting started
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Could you send me an example file of your hpgl output. ( indigoredster@... ) I was looking at my utils and they are hardcoded in some respects. I realized I had one util to clean up? the comreport formatting and then a 2nd util to do the conversion. The 2nd util I wrote has matrix maths? to do real arc conversion. I did those fully as an exercise based on some really good youtube videos by a? professor teaching game programming transformations.
Hi Lee
Interesting description. Would you be willing to send me your
hpgl to gcode translator. I use a cheap German pcb program which
can only export HPGL, Excellon and Gerber files. I do not use
Excellon and Gerber ones, not for me.
Regards
Jean-Claude
Am 08.05.2019 um 22:27 schrieb Lee
Studley:
I didn't really pay much attention to actual depth( and the maths
;-) other than making sure the bit cuts through the copper fully.
My min trace width setting in the sw(altium) was 15mils.
I use an ancient copy of lpkf software ( from a machine I had
years ago ) for the isolation. I wrote an hpgl to gcode translator
to process a report that the sw generates.
I'm sure the sw you are using does similar paths.
The rate was about 3mm/sec so ~180mm/min
It could be your copper thickness: it looks like 2oz which might
be harder to cut milling-wise(?) Are you in the usa? I can send
you a sheet of what I'm using. I got it on ebay way back.
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