imarin2 / PCBMill

PCBMill FABtotum plugin
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Open MARIOBASZ opened 5 years ago

MARIOBASZ commented 5 years ago

Hi, nice to meet you, I have not found another way to communicate with you.

I've cloned this one softly, I have not gotten it to start working You can tell me how? Do you think it makes sense for what I want to achieve? Is the next: I have very limited programming knowledge, even so I have managed to make my contributions of complements (route for trochoidal milling, trochoidal milling 3d, scale, generate threads,) to BCNC. My interest is, within a larger project of a cnc with not so common utilities on which I am working, to generate the milling of pcb with two milling cutters: I have made progress, by means of complements for said program, (with the routes for a bit of 0.10mm and a bit of 0.7mm, I have managed to fill the areas where the 0.7mm cutter does not reach), but the process demands too much time from my computer. Can this be done with your program? If so, could it be extracted directly from the .brd file directly? I await your comment, a hug.

imarin2 commented 5 years ago

I am not sure about the status of PCBMill. It was written for a rather old FABUI. I guess you are writing because you have a FABtotum. If you do not own a FABtotum, stop reading.

If you have a FABtotum, PCBMill will get as input gcode files and will guide you into doing a mesh leveling of a PCB clad using an endstop to detect conductivity between the PCB clad and the mill. If I remember correctly, it also had the option to add some extra depth after a first pass, in case there are parts where the insulation needs a little bit more of depth (with normal endmills, as with v-shaped ones, more depth means narrower tracks).

To be honest with you, the last PCB I milled was probably more than 3 years ago. Sorry if you feel disappointed.

MARIOBASZ commented 5 years ago

Thanks for answering!

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El 27 may. 2019, a la(s) 14:03, imarin2 notifications@github.com escribió:

I am not sure about the status of PCBMill. It was written for a rather old FABUI. I guess you are writing because you have a FABtotum. If you do not own a FABtotum, stop reading.

If you have a FABtotum, PCBMill will get as input gcode files and will guide you into doing a mesh leveling of a PCB clad using an endstop to detect conductivity between the PCB clad and the mill. If I remember correctly, it also had the option to add some extra depth after a first pass, in case there are parts where the insulation needs a little bit more of depth (with normal endmills, as with v-shaped ones, more depth means narrower tracks).

To be honest with you, the last PCB I milled was probably more than 3 years ago. Sorry if you feel disappointed.