[Coco] [Color Computer] [coco] Coco CNC

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 12 February 2007 05:48, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 2/12/07 2:37:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>
>gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:
>>>I know what you're doing  George.   I once thought about making a 
>>> flat bed pen  plotter/printer that would do the art work for making
>>> circuit boards  but I never got too far.   Besides, I managed to 
>>> find  a real flat bed plotter on Ebay.    It's the 26-1193  from 
>>> radio shack. ....I wonder if it would do circuit board  artwork?.....
>>
>>You can do that on an ink squirter Roy, and there are plenty of 
>> suitable programs to do the artwork with for linux.  Look at the  Geda
>> Suite.
>>
>>>Roy
>
>Yeah I thought about that.   If I were to do my own pc  boards
>tho I found a machine that would route the traces directly
>on the copper without etching.   It was costly but not out of  reach. 
> That's how I will do it if I get into pc board manufacture.   For now 
> tho I will stick to the professionals (PCB123).
>
>Roy

I could probably do them on my machine if I could find suitably sized 
carbide bits, which are both hard to find in those sizes, and expen$ive 
at over a twenty a copy.  But slowly I expect as the spindle speed is 
only 2500 rpm max for the micromill.  I think most machines for cutting 
pcb's will have 20,000 rpm and up spindles & liquid or forced air 
cooling.  I believe there is a convertor program that can take a 
png/gif/tiff image and make gcode to be fed to emc out of it, I've used a 
similar one to carve fawncy nameplates out of door kicker brass sheet 
myself.  That one takes a line of text, and a path to a truetype font 
plus a filename as the input arguments, and generates a gcode output file 
in 'filename'

-- 
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