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]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by Larken 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]

Originally Posted by Oldmanandhistoy 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]

Originally Posted by Jason Marsha 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