Justin Grimm wrote:

> Hi everyone
> I'm building a plotter for printing resist onto pcbs. I want to be able to
> draw the artwork in Protel and then output it to a HPGL file. (I think its
> HPGL for plotter outputs) I then want to import that into a windows program
> that I'll write which will drive my plotter.
>
> Does anyone know how HPGL works, or know of any links? How can I read the
> HPGL file and then drive my steppers? Is it in text format?
>
> Does anyone know of any links to similar projects?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Justin G
>
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Try the following,

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=18&s=ALLFILES

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=19&s=ALLFILES

for links to HPGL file formats.

Jim

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