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This is timely as I am about to start playing with a PCB router I got
off ebay a while ago, which is based on gcode so I was about to ask
pretty much the same question.

gene heskett (gheskett AT shentel DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 April 2022 10:40:53 EDT you wrote:
>> pcb-rnd ( http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/ ) can load your PCB files
>> and has built in milling machine toolpath gcode export capability.
>>
>> you can also view the the generated g-code in the related CAM file
>> viewer camv-rnd before milling.
>>
>> http://www.repo.hu/projects/camv-rnd/
>>
>> Both can be installed from a package on most linux distros, and now
>> have gtk4 support.
>  
> That sounds interesting. What does it use for a board designer?
>
> Thank you.
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Erich
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:54 gene heskett (gheskett AT shentel DOT net) [via
>>
>> geda-user AT delorie DOT com], <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>> Hi, I've been lurking here since forever, but am now wondering if the
>>> geda suite of tools can now issue files in gcode to mill away the
>>> copper and create a double sided circuit board, like I could a
>>> decade back with the eagle program before they killed it by selling
>>> it. I need to create and make a board for a MAP sensor, a 3 terminal
>>> device that needs some onboard noise filtering.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>>> --
>>>
>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>>
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>>> respectable.> 
>>>  - Louis D. Brandeis
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.