An attempt to move this thread to [OT]....

John Ferrell W8CCW

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On 3/18/2011 1:03 PM, Michael Watterson wrote:
> On 18/03/2011 16:47, John Ferrell wrote:
>> This is a
>>     "Google has not been my friend on this, either because it doesn't
>> exist, or I
>> just don't know the right incantation to find it."
>>
>> I would like to re-visit an attempt to use a plotter (actually a vinyl
>> sign cutter) to apply resist to home brew PC Boards.
>> It would be helpful to be able to convert Gerbers to HPGL or find a
>> layout program that provides a HPGL output file.
>>
>> Of course, the solution needs to be free or cheap.
>>
>> I wish I could find a way to get Google to quit offering a thousand bad
>> answers when it cannot produce an answer that fits the requested search
>> parameters.
>>
>>
> see plug ins for Eagle. On Cadsoft site
>
> I used a PCB mill plug in. Similarish but not the same.
> The kit "pcb mill" that Elektor featured long ago. The results for
> double sided 0.8mm RF PCB not bad once we milled the bed to make it flat.
>
> I forget the brand.
>
> You could use UV LED on the plotter and photo resist on the PCB?
> Dunno.
>
> Also if you install the Plotter on Windows can Eagle "print" to it
> directly?  (CD marker as pen for resist?)
>
> A million years ago we used HP plotter to plot layouts on paper and
> mylar from something, with Schematics done in Futurenet in DOS, Circa 198=
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