Hello all
I would like to thank you all for your gentle words of encouragement. I know it’s not always nice to be repeating the same old stuff when a new member come to the forum seeking for the same guidance and excepting the same enthusiasm is if the question has never been asked before, for this I’m appreciative as it must be a labour of love giving the same advice.
I know I’m in for a long learning curve but with help from you kind and generous professionals I will get there.
When I was a child my Father used to make things with electronics all the time practical Electronics I think was his bible he bought for years as I remember. I remember selling years of his magazines at school, but sadly my father didn't have the interest in teaching me how to make electrical-gizmo’s. Well that’s going to change with my son I Love finding bit and gizmo’s for him to make. Proud Father here my son has just finished his robotic arm (one from Maplin) mostly by himself. I only stepped in when he got frustrated. I have also purchased a Raspberry Pi for him as I would like him to control the Robotic arm with it.
We are going to make a solar tracker, LED 8x64 Matrix Display with wi-fi control if possible also he would like to hack his fan and make a POV.
Well on to the reason I started to write this post/reply is I think I’ve found a better way of making my boards, well the process of drawing and writing the gcode first I altered my trace size and hole size changed ic contacts to oval pads which gives me more area to solder too.
So after I have designed my PCB I have saved it to gerber file and then open it in gerv program and save this as a PDF then convert the PDF to Jpeg after this I can open it in Vcarve.
When I get to Vcarve I can then draw the vectors straight from the Jpg File. From there it’s easy to generate the Vectors with a couple of clicks of the mouse done the first time I did this I used blue image and found I had to clean up my vectors a little bit but it worked out quite nice next time I'm going to use BLACK and convert PDF to Jpg in photoshop (better black and white control)
Here is a screen shot of my vectors
the vac I'm using is a RSDE1
Link..............**broken link removed**
Again thank you for the advice
GreenJames
PS
If I can do anything for the people here on this forum just ask I will cut anything on my cnc machine for free just supply material cost and postage