On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:05 +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: ... snip > I have a flat-bed plotter myself, and I use it for making PCBs (using > OHP pens to directly write the etch-mask)
What is OHP? If it is convenient, please provide a link to more information on your PCB process. > and also for a rapid > prototyping system using a vinyl-cutting knife to slice out many > layers of label paper which can be assembled on a jig to create models > of components for casting patterns etc. Would Reprap be a viable alternative? http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome > I use Gnu Octave ( http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ )to drive the > plotter. This is free software that copies the functions of the Matlab > language. Like Matlab it auto-indexes though lists and matrices making > it very suitable for handling lists of data. It also has built-in > functions for sorting, indexing, determinants etc, etc, etc, > As a picture is worth 1000 words, here is a picture of the sort of > thing the system produces. This sounds similar to my trying to use an OpenOffice spread sheet to edit g-code. You can describe relationships between data, so when a feature changes the affected data changes with it. Plus it allows me to organize the data that I know, so that I can play with it until I get what I need. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
