Re: faster steppers (and Eagle PCB output)

Hello Alan and others,

I got Eagle 4 PCB-Gcode working with a little work. Here's a quick setup what I used.

1. draw board what you are going to mill
2. from menu, select "File -> Run" and choose "outlines.ldp"
3. from popup menu choose device as "Script", width as width of your
drill or similar (in mm's) (I used 0.1 so that I could clearly see
what it did.). Choose layer (usually it's "Bottom") and choose output
file (it should have .scr - end since it's a script, eg.
"output_outlines.scr" is ok.
4. Close this board (don't save changes in this stage)
5. Create new board (just click "File -> New")
6. run a scrip you just created, click "File -> Script" and find your
script from file-selection menu. After running that, there should be
outlines of your board.
7. get a "cam-job" for this board and print it out. I use Gerber and
Gerberauto23 formats, I'm not sure which is more correct.
8. edit the gerber files, I did remove "*" markings from end and
convert every coordinate from X011234 format to X01.1234 format since
there is no decimals in output of Eagle. This last step is required only if
it's used with EMC. (There is also "automagic" converted at my my
pages [1].)

I hope this helped a little.

Henkka, OH6KFT

[1] http://www.yty.net/cnc

* Alan Marconett KM6VV (KM6VV@...) [24.03.2001 02:41]:

> ...
> I also want to generate a Gcode file from the board layout. ONCE I
> figure it out.
> ...
> Alan KM6VV

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