Protel is driving me crazy

[ez-cnc.com]

Hi i made my cnc proyect and like most of us i want to make my own bords with the machine. But when i export the gerber or dxf or hpgl from protel i dont get clean tracks. Im attaching some images so you can see whats happenig to me. May be its a set up that i have wrong, i dont know.
Hope someone can help me.
Thanks.

[CLaNZeR]

Hi

I use Protel99 and Protel DXP.

To do the isolation I export under Cam Manager the gerbers and import into Kcam that auto isolates the tracks for me.

Must admit I have not had the tracks breaking like your pictures show.
When you have exported what are you then using to isolate the tracks?

Regards

Sean.

[chris101]

Hi.

Sorry for breaking into this thread, but Clanzer, I have a similar problem, I use Protel 99SE for making my PCB's, and then make the gerberfiles with it, when I first import a gerber file into Kcam, it places it WAY out the GRID ? (see pic 1).

When I then get zoomed in on it looks VERY weird, certainly NOT something I want to try to mill, the blue line I figure is the milling route ?, but the rest of the lines is milling through one an other and so on ? (see pic 2.) WHAT can I be doing wrong ?

Let me say, that I'm ABSOLUTELY new at milling, so ALL the help I can get is VERY much appreciated.

Best regards from.

Christian

[Wardend52]

chris101,

I sometimes have this problem when exporting to coppercam. Check your origin position in your Protel PCB file.

Hope this helps.....