Re: [Pcb2gcode-devel] best way to add text to pcb

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

Hi John,

I don't know any reasonable way of adding text to the board - maybe it
works if you set the offset to the radius of your engraving bit, but
that is applied to the whole board.

I've not used it myself, so I'm not 100% sure what it really does, but I
think the --milldrill option might be useful for you. Seems it does
everything with the bit that's used for cutting out the board, though -
if you have smaller bore holes, it still just uses the big one.
You could try to split your excellon drill file in two - one with the
big bores, and one with the smaller ones; then run pcb2gcode with
big_diameters.cnc and --milldrill, save drill.ngc, and run pcb2gcode
another time with the small diameters.

Let me know if that works the way you want, it should be easy to add
another option to pcb2gcode to do that automatically.

-- 
Patrick Birnzain <pbi...@us...>


On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:55:39 +1100
John Sheahan <jrs...@op...> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm new to this list - just managed to mill a couple of s/s boards, with z-adjust -
> in retrospect all the code worked amazingly well.  Kudos to all the developers.
> 
> It did raise a couple of questions on how I could do even better.
> 
> I added the board name and revision on the bottom of the artwork, in positive copper.
> 
> This looked interesting after being voroni-ised. Wasn't readable.
> Is there a working way to get this part of the layout cut directly and legible?
> Negative text would be nice in a solid area.
> 
> 
> Also - is there a clever way of getting a big drill not in a tool table to mill using a small end 
> mill -rather than drilled?
> 
> regards, john
> 
> 
> 
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