Homebrew PCBs

Hi,

Thanks for the info. This sort of environment might be exactly what 
I'm looking for.

Kevin

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, DJ Delorie <dj@...> wrote:
>
> 
> "Kevin Morgan" <prizes@...> writes:
> > Do you happen to know whether anyone uses gEDA and PCB to mill 
> > circuit boards (that is, isolation routing)?
> 
> There's someone working on DXF export, which is the first step.  But
> if you have something that works from gerbers, pcb can produce those
> (duh).
> 
> PCB has a plugin interface that lets you add more exporters (or 
other
> functionality[*]) without recompiling pcb itself, so if you know how
> to do isolation milling "in general", it should be easy to apply it 
to
> pcb's internal data structure.  We have a polygon clipping module,
> too, so you could in theory start with "everything" and clip out all
> the copper you want to keep, and use the resulting set of polygons 
to
> drive the cutter.  I'm just guessing on that, since I'm not familiar
> with the clipper's internals.
> 
> But none of us have mills, so we haven't worked on it yet ;-)
> 
> [*] http://www.delorie.com/pcb/ has my RenumberBlock and Teardrops
>     plugins, for example.
>