gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

[Dave McGuire]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Bob Paddock wrote:
> What I always wonder about with these tools, or similar X/Y  
> machines is why
> no one ever optimizes the travel to save time.  Seems like it  
> should be simple
> mater of sorting the vectors?  Instead the machine goes at random from
> place to place.

   Years ago, I wrote a bunch of code which generated HPGL to drive a  
plotter.  I sorted the vectors for exactly this reason.  It made a  
BIG difference in plot time.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL