Re: [Pcb2gcode-devel] Won't create voronoi toolpath

[Patrick B. <pbi...@us...>]

Hi,

pcb2gcode accepts board outlines as
	a) polygons that describe the exact shape or
	b) a sequence of lines and arcs of constant width that outline the board shape

b) is what most people want, but a) is the default. If you have drawn your board outline with e.g. 5mil thick lines, you can tell pcb2gcode about that by adding "--fill-outline --outline-width=0.005". If you don't do that, it will think your board shape is a 10 mil thin shape with a big hole in it, and since your traces don't seem to be on the board, they won't be engraved.

a) and b) needed to be treated differently because we originally planned to support boards with holes.
I will soon improve b) so it works with --outline-width=0, make b) the default and drop a) altogether or at least deactivate it.
Since all of this is documented very badly or not at all and apparently many users had that exact same problem that you have this will be the next thing I'll do when I work on pcb2gcode.

-- Patrick