Hi Gerry, I use V point mills. 60 Degree normally, but there are also 30 and 15 degree I think. After milling the board, my mill, mills a border. This I then follow to cut the board to size. If I mill

#mill

Made a schematic and then tried the board. Gave autoroute a go and got a reasonable board. Problem is there are areas I have made errors on both the board and schematic. Trying to undo and go back I n

#eagle

Hi, I too am having problems with text. I have set the text to Vector, the other two options I have are, 'proportional' and 'fixed'. I attach a screen-print of the properties I have chosen. Here the p

#mill

I think what they mean by, 'arduino based', is that, like most diy machines used for milling, the code is sent to the arduino, from a PC/Laptop,, which then drives the 3 stepper motors and milling mot

#eagle #gcode #pcbgcode

Many thanks for the help, Y?es the problem was the interface from my chair to the PC. After resetting the zero all worked on. Again thanks for putting u[p with my incompetence. Vaughn

#drill

Thanks for reply. Did try another board and when I ran the drill.tap file, the cutter started lifted moved to a position no where near any drill holes I needed came down but did not touch the board mo

#drill

OK, Got my first board made and all ok. Still need to iron out a few bits but after running the etch file I got my tracks. Thanks to all who offered help with other posts After the first run I had my

#drill

free version of eagle only allows a few layers, may be thats the problem. also need to set tracks as nets, i think, and width of track or nothing works. I tried to take short cuts but in the end follo

#mill

Files given look just like I kept getting til I downgraded to eagle-pcb V7.7 Hope you can get an answer so I too can upgrade. Bes of luck Vaughn

#mill

I use a mill but if you set pcbgcode up so the depth of cut is 0, then instead of trying to cut it should just touch paper and draw. As I say very ne to this too so just thinking out laud. Im sure oth

#eagle #gcode #pcbgcode

I use a mill but if you set pcbgcode up so the depth of cut is 0, then instead of trying to cut it should just touch paper and draw. As I say very ne to this too so just thinking out laud. Im sure oth

#eagle #gcode #pcbgcode

Hi still new also and had gthe same problem. Was given this: its called PCB-GCODE and downloadable from here: http://eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/ulp?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q%5Btitle_or_author_or_description_cont

#eagle #gcode #pcbgcode

Not sure if this is the correct place or tag, apologies if I am wrong. I feel confident with a little more work ?I can get the boards I design made but there are still some very good boards out there

#mill

Installed the 7.7 version and now all looks ok. Just need to work out how to use it all lol Thanks for the help Vaughn

#pcbgcode

I too have the cheep china one. Main problem is I have no profiles to choose from. Now looking at trying the 7 version, to see if thats less trouble. Thanks Vaughn

#pcbgcode

Hi, new to the group and pcbgcode. Been trying out this eagle for a time and not had much luck getting the files I need to make my cnc make a board. downloaded the pcb-gcode and placed this in the cor

#pcbgcode