Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re: exporting single pcb layers)

2010-12-02 Thread chrysn
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:05:48AM +0100, Alberto Maccioni wrote: * no voronoi mode: all the other tools (see below) support a mode  where they fill the unused area of the board with the closest net.  this cuts the machining time down to less than 50%. Can you explain more? an image

Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re: exporting single pcb layers)

2010-12-01 Thread Alberto Maccioni
* no voronoi mode: all the other tools (see below) support a mode  where they fill the unused area of the board with the closest net.  this cuts the machining time down to less than 50%. Can you explain more? * strange outline behavior: i'm not sure what the outline file is  supposed to do,

Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re: exporting single pcb layers)

2010-12-01 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 30.11.2010 um 16:29 schrieb chrysn: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:29:31AM +0100, Alberto Maccioni wrote: in the process of cnc-milling a pcb with a custom shape using pcb2gcode [1], i created a polygon on a separate layer... Have you ever tried the g-code exporter included in PCB? I've

gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re: exporting single pcb layers)

2010-11-30 Thread chrysn
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:29:31AM +0100, Alberto Maccioni wrote: in the process of cnc-milling a pcb with a custom shape using pcb2gcode [1], i created a polygon on a separate layer... Have you ever tried the g-code exporter included in PCB? I've never been able to make pcb2gcode work with