3 Sep
1999
3 Sep
'99
4:01 a.m.
At 03:42 AM 9/3/99 -0000, you wrote:
Joe wrote:
That's what I thought but I've seen people do it. One of the classes at
my unverisity used some kind of knife in a HP plotter to make strip lines
on a PCB for microwave work. Apparently they had been doing it for a while
and it worked successfully. I wasn't interested in it at the time so I
didn't pay attention to what they were doing and I don't even know which
plotter they used except that it was a large flat bed HP plotter.
Joe
I've heard that there are knifes available
that can be used in them to
cut strip lines on copper PCB and knifes for cutting out vinyl and other
materials but I don't know what they cost or where you can get them. Does
anyone know any more about them?
There are small machines designed for the express purpose of milling
printed circuit boards. There's no way a pen plotter will be able to do
that with a knife or drill; they weren't designed to produce enough force
or move enough mass for that type of work.