Milled PCB Test

A few pictures of a test run trying out isolation PCB routing. GCode was generated using the PCB-Gcode script for Eagle, using the backplane board from my 6502 project as input.

Part way through the run I noticed that the mill was slightly out of alignment on the X-axis, this was causing shallow track cuts which got progressively worse the further along the X-axis the program went. A quick adjustment of the gantry seems to have fixed this but some further testing is required. I also need to tweak feed rates and cut depths, but the test went very well!

LinuxCNC tool path progrss

Here you can see some of the incomplete cuts made before I adjusted the gantry

Using a scrap piece of PCB, a bit small so the program ran off the edge

Isolation routing in progress, good clean cuts

Tags:6502 7x7 isolation pcb route mill zen tool works

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