Engrave a PCB from a Bitmap file

[Totem]

Hi all,

I made a small video (in french...) to explain how you can do a PCB with your router if you have only the Bitmap of the circuit back.

Note: for drills, you need a Gerber or DXF file if you want do do it with CB like me, but all the populars circuit design software's can already give you a g-code for drilling.

Link to the video:   http://www.screencast.com/t/F52nnSBX

Hope that helps anybody and happy new year

++ Lionel

[joel.r1]

J'adore !

Thanks Lionel for this tutorial, I never though it could be possible to proceed that way, and will keep that in mind for future PCB.

Joel

[Totem]

Hi,

In Cambam, there are a lot of things we never though 

Be careful, this way the G-code will be very very long, with a 100x160mm PCB I had one file of 180.000 lines! Hope you have not the trial of Mach, where you must cut your code in 500lines parts 

++ Lionel