Just drilled a PCB using Chilipeppr Eagle widget and Frank’s /xpix workspace.
~170 holes, 5 tools, all done in ~25 mins including tool change and zeroing Z axis. What a difference comparing to manual drilling.
Thank you @jlauer and @Frank_Herrmann .
Thank you Chilipeppr.
I started another post, but as I see picture arrived, so I will add more info below
Video upload takes too long with my ADSL connection. Will post on YouTube and share.
Updated:
Link to the video: “PCB drilling using Chilipeppr Eagle widget.” on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3bw7jIPbdF8
Board has been printed with a UV ink solvent printer, etched at home, manually painted a soldermask and hardened with UV lamp.
This is one sided board with only the bottom layer present. I moved all traces to Top in Eagle in order to get proper drill coordinates in Eagle. I copied only the drill part from the g-code file into another text file and tuned it a bit:
. changed Z travel height to 10mm for the first move from (0,0) to make sure the tool won’t crack by touching the PCB holding pin
. changed Z axis tool change height to 25mm
. added S5000 after every M3 command, otherwise spindle relay did not talk
.default feedrate of 100 used this time, next time I will probably drop down a bit, specially for 0.6mm drill
The holes for some push buttons were not drilled. I didn’t examine the Eagle generated g-code to see if the coords are there so far. Not a big deal anyway.
Preparing the file for the machine to be used with Chilipeppr took 10-15 mins. I mean Eagle part (layer change), *.brd file import and g-code tuning. Easy and comfortable.
I am currently using grbl workspace, as I temporarily gave up with my TinyG2 (gShield+ArduinoDue) acquaintance.
