Originally Posted by palenn  Seems like a person should be able to use CAD to generate the outside shape, fill the inside with points spaced as desired and then generate a program using something like a G81 drill cycle in conjunction with G31 to create the "bed of nails" output.
Probably not that simple or someone would have done it by now. |
Actually, I don't think it would be that hard. Basically read a .dxf of points and create a g-code file with a G31 for each point.
I create my g-code with an AutoCAD macro I wrote. This would be pretty simple to do in AutoCAD with VBA.