Homebrew PCBs

Hi Alan,
        I turned a trace into a ruler at the bottom
of the drawing. This way I could figure out what scaling
to use. I found the KCam left out some traces. So much for
that idea. This works with that, but it don't work with
this!  KCam only imports and it saves GCode.  I just
use an old version to plot and scale my DXF. I then save
them as GCode. Works great!  I wish somebody would make
a simple drawing program that saves in GCode.

                                       John

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...> wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> KCam!  OK, now I remember you saying you used it.  Can KCam then 
export
> in DXF?  Sounds like a plan.  Let me know how it turns out.  I'd 
like to
> see the results.
> 
> Alan  KM6VV
> 
> 
> crankorgan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Alan,
> >         After I made a test board. I then saved it to a directory.
> > Then I found when I clicked on Gerber a set of Gerber files
> > appeared in that directory. I was then able to import one of them
> > into KCam.  In KCam I might be able to rescale the drawing
> > to inches. If I get time I will give it a shot.
> > 
> >                                       John
> > 
> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...> 
wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > >
> > > No, I hadn't seen target.  Similar to Eagle?  100 pins limit, 
might
> > be a
> > > little tight.  I'm thinking that I will probably upgrade on 
Eagle,
> > IF I
> > > can ever get time to learn it!
> > >
> > > Inches WOULD be easier!  I can get the MM/IN translation done by
> > Vector
> > > CAD/CAM, and I'm thinking I can put a parm in my program to do 
it
> > for
> > > me.
> > >
> > > What sort of board did you do in TCI?  Which output did you use?
> > I've
> > > posted a simple TCI file of a trace with it's corresponding
> > (generated)
> > > CNC file.
> > >
> > > Alan  KM6VV                             John