First milled PCB

[Jason Marsha]

Here is a pic of my first milled PCB. It was done a while back and I never built the stepper driver it was milled for, but it came out pretty good.

Jason

[Larken]

What software did you use to make that ?

[Oldmanandhistoy]

Here is a pic of my first milled PCB. It was done a while back and I never built the stepper driver it was milled for, but it came out pretty good.

Jason

Nice PCB and nice to see this new category on the Zone

John

[Jason Marsha]

I set the grid pattern to 1.27mm in a CAD program as the perfboard that was to be used was 2.54mm spacing. I also created a set of points fro the drill holes

I then imported the dxf into Vcarve Pro and created the toolpath.


Jason

[Oldmanandhistoy]

What software did you use to make that ?

Lots of good stuff here http://www.mr-bean.co.uk/pcb_stuff/pcb_stuff.html

John

[Jason Marsha]

If you want PCB design software you could check out www.diptrace.com.

Jason

[Jason Marsha]

Nice PCB and nice to see this new category on the Zone

John

Thanks John.

There was another guy that had some really good pics of his PCB boards but I cannot remeber his name.

Jason

[Oldmanandhistoy]

Thanks John.

There was another guy that had some really good pics of his PCB boards but I cannot remeber his name.

Jason

This thread has lots of useful information and might have the pictures you are thinking about PCB Milling

John

[Oldmanandhistoy]

Router for cutting PC Boards

New Free tools for pcb milling

PCB Trace Isolation - Minimum Track and Isolation

http://www.brusselsprout.org/PCB-Routing/

I have a little spare time so I’ve had a quick look for some more useful threads that may be of interest. I haven’t personally read through them so take them as they come.

Maybe it would be worth starting a new thread just for useful links to get the beginners started?


John

[haku]

Those links were very helpful. thanks dude. I am just starting to build my machine for mostly this purpose, however I will make it big enough to do larger project with wood or aluminum.

Thanks
Haku

[pminmo]

check these out: http://www.millpcbs.com/index.php?page=fine-traces and http://www.millpcbs.com/index.php?page=finished-result

[haku]

Does anyone know what bits etc that he used for those mills. They look really good, that is the kind of precision that I would like.

Thanks
Haku