Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Mattison" <mattison20@...>
wrote:
>
> Well, not quite. You have to move the decimal to the left three
places on
> every X/Y coordinate. Word doesn't know how to do that. You could
manually
> edit the G6 codes to one of the RS274NGC drill cycles but if I have to
> automate some of it, might as well automate all.
> --
> Phil Mattison
> http://www.ohmikron.com/
> Motors::Drivers::Controllers::Software

When you export the file, you should be able to set up the digits
before and after the decimal point.

Also, you can have an INI file that uses the full number as is,
without moving the decimal.  The machine really doesn't care that you
think an inch is 1.00 all it knows is that it will move the number of
steps that it is commanded to.

so, 001234 could be 1.234 inches to you, or 12.34 or 0.1234.  the
decimal is only important to us who read the code.  If you set the
machine so it moves as the steps command, the board will come out fine.

Dave