Homebrew PCBs

Hi Alan -

We meet again ;-)

I will be interested to hear how you get on - strikes me that generating an 
outline from Gerber is potentially non-trivial. Would love to make use of 
any results you generate though!

Am also looking at the possibility of using DXF track layout output & 
importing that into Dolphin, then treating the tracks as a series of 
"islands" for an area clear. Might just work, depending on how smart 
Dolphin proves to be, but doing it that way may prove rather (mill) time 
consuming compared with the outline approach.  Waiting for the CD to 
arrive... <sound of drumming fingers...>

Regards,
Tony

At 10:05 07/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi to the list!
>
>I usually hang out at the CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO list, but as I have been
>working towards using a CNC to "etch" a board, I thought I'd post a few
>comments here!
>
>Not that I'm anti-chemical (I've etched a few boards before), but I'm
>quite taken up with the CNC approach.
>
>I'd like to mention Eagle, which has a PCB layout program, it can
>generate the outline traces with an available script.
>
>         http://www.cadsoftusa.com/
>
>I'm even working on generating outlines myself from Gerber files.
>
>Alan  KM6VV
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