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CNC mill for PCB building

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I have a CNC mill I would like to use in PCB building. What can I easily do with it right away?

 

I assume I can cut, etch, and even component place with it. Any one do something with a CNC mill in this vein?

 

Cabe

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Hi Elias,

     

    I haven't personally worked with a CNC machine. In doing support for Cadsoft a few customers have asked how they could interface their EAGLE board data to their CNC machines. I have pointed them to those ULPs and feedback has been positive that's why I recommended them to Cabe.

     

    Other users have mentioned that their machines can accept gerber files straight up, and they have also given positive feedback as to their experiences using their CNC machine. So that's another option you may want to look into.

     

    hth,

     

    Best Regards,

    Jorge Garcia

  • in reply to Jorge_Garcia

    Hi Jorge and thanks for the reply,

     

     

    I will take a look at the other ULPs most likely once I have my new workshop set-up so I can then report here a bit more of my experiences with other than pcb-gcode.

     

    With pcb-gcode there is no path optimization so by default there are a lot z-axis movement for the lifts.

     

    There is an optimizer that reduces the time significantly but the tool does not care about doing inside or outside first etc.

     

    Here is a forum thread to read more about the tool and for downloading it: http://pcbgcode.org/read.php?6,5,5 .

     

     

     

     

    Elias