Paint with parallel lines

flatbear

Tested and works well on large filled areas of PCBs, but maybe not so much for non horizontal traces. (I do run the resulting G code through a script that removes M03 and M05 between features and replace them with S0 and Sn parameters to each move. This also requirese G00 moves to be changed to G01 moves as G00 ignores S0 to turn laser off while rapiding to the next feature)

Couple of suggestions to help further improve the feature:

Add options to do more contour passes, effectively making thin traces all contours.
Sort the g-code to make a horizontal scanning, with grbl 1.1 new laser mode this could work well.
Add a 3rd mode to "single" and "all" as the selection. By introducing "remaining" one could use 'straight lines' on large areas and 'standard' on traces and smaller features.

2016-11-15T09:44:29+00:00

Comments (3)

Juan Pablo Caram reporter
- changed status to resolved
Solved in fb6e113
- 2016-11-01T04:39:16+00:00
Roman Kelhar
vau...i did not check this for some days and now is resolved...i will try...No I need to try :)THX
- 2016-11-14T13:58:41+00:00
flatbear
Tested and works well on large filled areas of PCBs, but maybe not so much for non horizontal traces. (I do run the resulting G code through a script that removes M03 and M05 between features and replace them with S0 and Sn parameters to each move. This also requirese G00 moves to be changed to G01 moves as G00 ignores S0 to turn laser off while rapiding to the next feature)

Couple of suggestions to help further improve the feature:
- Add options to do more contour passes, effectively making thin traces all contours.
- Sort the g-code to make a horizontal scanning, with grbl 1.1 new laser mode this could work well.
- Add a 3rd mode to "single" and "all" as the selection. By introducing "remaining" one could use 'straight lines' on large areas and 'standard' on traces and smaller features.
- 2016-11-15T09:44:29+00:00
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