Greetings all; I just installed a new box on my milling machine, an Intel D525 Atom powered board with onboard i915 video.
One of the graphics visualization tools that would be part of the processing chain between CadSofts 'eagle' and the nc code to actually engrave the pc board is 'visolate', a bit of a *.jar odd duck in that it can output gcode that can carve the board in perhaps only 10% of the time that most 'isolation engraved' pc board take. That could convert an 8 hour job into perhaps 30-45 minutes on my machine with a spindle about 100k rpms to slow to do it very fast. Unfortunately it needs the java3d stuffs for its preview display, and bails out if the '3d' functions aren't available. I think I managed to get the java3d stuffs installed thanks to some relatively simple procedures I found on one of the reprap oriented forums, but from the results obtained when I try to use it, the i915 driver hasn't those capabilities. Is there a chance it might grow such features? Or is that hardware just too puny to do it and I am stuck with PCB-Gcode generating the 8 hour job? Thanks people. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> The good life was so elusive It really got me down I had to regain some confidence So I got into camouflage _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
