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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:28:18 +0000
From: "Peter C.J. Clifton" <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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On 2015-01-07 18:10, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Peter Clifton <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 19:00 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
>>> Peter Clifton wrote:
>>> > I'm doing some re-factoring of HID drawing APIs etc..,
>>> 
>>> This sounds fantastic. Thanks a lot!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> > If there are a some exporters people want to maintain (or get merged at
>>> > some point?), also let me know,
>>> 
>>> I only have a wishlist HPGL exporter for milling. :)
>> 
>> Have you tried the gcode exporter? (I have not, so cannot attest to 
>> its
>> output).
> 
> I have, but my objective wasn't to do isolation milling of traces, but
> rather outline milling to separate individual board images from a
> panel.  Frankly, it didn't go well.  I ended up semi-manually 
> extracting
> enough hole locations to be able to drill and tap a fixture for holding
> the panels, then hand-crafted g-code to rip the rectangular boards out
> of the panels.


What was wrong with PCB's gcode export?

I found this page today:
http://reprap.org/wiki/PCB_Milling

It details a number of pieces of software for dealing with milling PCB 
files.


Peter