gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

[Igor2]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Dave McGuire wrote:

>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.
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>   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.

Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and
learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I
would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scriptable PCB project.

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>              -Dave
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