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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gcode for carving pcb's on a milling machine?
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:22:46 -0400
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On Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:40:05 EDT you wrote:
> Consider pcb2gcode? I am the author. It's not graphical but it has a
> lot of features that other tools don't have, such as voronoi paths and
> support for multiple tools. For example, you could mill with a coarse
> tool and then a narrow one to get smaller spaces. It use heuristics to
> find a path that minimizes milling time.
> 
> The GitHub wiki for the project has images demonstrating the various
> features.
> 
> Eyal
> 
Thanks for the reminder, Eyal.  I believe I used that with eagle at about 
5.6 or so a decade ago before it was bought and destroyed. It worked well 
then and some of its output is yet helping to run my machines.  Thank 
you.

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 02:24 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."
> > 
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law
> > respectable.> 
> >  - Louis D. Brandeis


Cheers, Gene Heskett.
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis