Re: gEDA-user: Enhancements for gEDA/pcb G-code export
Am Freitag, den 22.10.2010, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Markus Hitter: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3093302group_id=161080atid=818428 Traumflug's wishlist in the Patches section, in case this long link doesn't work. New patches today: HID-gcode: remove a leftover debug-printf. HID-gcode: provide info about drill diameters in G-code as well. While this is currently unsorted, it's helpful for hand-editing already. HID-gcode: sort drills not only by distance, but also by diameter. This should help greatly when using a tool changer. Next step would be to actual insert tool change commands and/or split G-code output files by drill diameter. The later is for manual tool changing, then. HID-gcode: report one drill diameter only once in the output file. Cheers, Markus ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Enhancements for gEDA/pcb G-code export
Hi again :-) Hacking pcb is so much fun, I'm already close to the part where I want to implement milling of non-track stuff. Like the board's outline, like venting holes, like bigger bores. Likely the best idea would be to search for such geometry on a milling layer. I also think it's best to ignore line thicknesses for such tasks and to simply move the mill bit along the line's or arc's center. Set the line width to the mill bit's diameter and the display is accurate. One question arises is, how to decide wether to flip the geometry or not. Single-sided boards are manufactured from the bottom side only, so flipping would be undoubtly appropriate. Is there a need for milling from the top side, after all? If I put the milling layer into the solder side and component side groups for distinction, this disturbs all the tracks, right? Another one is, is there a GUI way to create lines outside the board? Milling the outer border of the board is always done from outside the board, after all. Any comments are welcome Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Enhancements for gEDA/pcb G-code export
Markus Hitter wrote: Another one is, is there a GUI way to create lines outside the board? 1) make the canvas larger File - Preferences - Sizes 2) Move the layout by some amount to the bottom right. Select all and drag with the mouse. 3) Add a layer outline and draw the borders of the board with a closed trail of lines. The width of the tracks does not matter. 4) draw lines outside the outline :-) http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips#how_do_i_make_a_board_outline_to_go_with_my_gerbers_to_the_board_maker If you wish to have the outline layer by default, start new projects by calling pcb with a not yet existing pcb file. The layer stack of the project created this way is read from $HOME/.pcb/preferences and can be edited to suit to your needs. Look for the lines starting with groups or layer-name. By contrast, the default layers gsch2pcb uses are hard coded into the source. Hope, this helps. --)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x6C0B9F53 ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
