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dmitrijkirikil
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:41:33 GMT

Hi is it possible to add these features. * Text writeing - If you want to mill Text, then it would be better to draw onle line inside of object. * Drill tool - drill holes are not exportable from proteus, so it would be cool feature to draw your own holes for drilling. * Single line between traces - if we have for example two traces, then GCode will be generated to mill at least four lines. [WishlistFeatures](//muut.com/u/flatcam/s3/:flatcam:1W4V:wishlistfeatures.png.jpg) And thank you for nice tool.

dmitrijkirikil
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:29:56 GMT

Drill tool – problem was that excelion file needs to be importet after Gerber files, but not separately or first.. So it works in Porteus. First Gerber, then Excelion.. thank you.

Marius Stanciu
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:05:04 GMT

> @dmitrijkirikil >Text writeing – If you want to mill Text, then it would be better to draw onle line inside of object. It is possible using the 'Follow' option. In FlatCAM 8.5 you need to open the file from Tcl command with the 'follow' option like described in the manual. In the version Beta 8.994 that will be released in the next few days (it still needs a few final touches but most of the bugs are ironed out with the help of our colleagues here, like@malatyakaya480, @oocnet, @pauledd2) things will be a bit different then in the current release (8.993) but search for the 'Follow' property. > @dmitrijkirikil > Drill tool – drill holes are not exportable from Proteus, so it would be cool feature to draw your own holes for drilling. In FlatCAM Beta there are now a number of ways you can do that. You can create a new blank Excellon object, then use the Excellon Editor to add manually the drills that you need. See the extra toolbar that allow adding drills, arrays of drills, slots, array of slots, resizing drills. copying them, moving. In the Tool table you can add a t ool diameter to which you can add drills/slots. [Excellon-editor](//muut.com/u/flatcam/s2/:flatcam:g1Kh:excelloneditor.jpg.jpg) Or you can use the Extract Drills Tool which will extract the drills from a Gerber file, in a number of ways: [Extract-drills](//muut.com/u/flatcam/s2/:flatcam:vAdn:extractdrills.jpg.jpg) > @dmitrijkirikil > Single line between traces – if we have for example two traces, then GCode will be generated to mill at least four lines Unfortunately, due of the peculiarities of the modules that are used, to my knowledge this is not possible. But if someone has ideas it will be nice to be proved wrong. > @dmitrijkirikil > drill holes are not exportable from proteus But why do you say that? Proteus and all the ECAD software that are released, do export all the manufacturing files, including but not limited to the NC Drills files (otherwise said Execllon files).

dmitrijkirikil
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:44:52 GMT

> @Marius Stanciu > But why do you say that? I was doing it wrong, I was trying import first Excelion file, then Gerber. If I do it other way around, first Gerber then Excelion, then it works like a charm. :) Thank you to your replies.

Marius Stanciu
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:23:07 GMT

I don't understand: the order of loading files in FlatCAM does not matter. One can load first either the Excellon or the Gerber ...