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How I to do no-copper regions in FlatCam 8.912?

nesti
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:19:17 GMT

Hi all, i'm work with the FlatCam v 8.912- 64Bit, all work fine, but I don't know how to do the no-copper regions, someone body can explain to me it?. Thanks u

fmk_wa
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:26:14 GMT

I can get the no-copper function to remove all copper inside my traces or all copper around the entire board but nut the copper between the traces. I need this feature for microwave electronics and I must be doing something wrong or there is a bug or limits to how this should be working. - Frank

Marius Stanciu
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:09:17 GMT

As I already written around here, that function don't work that well. It needs a certain 'lucky' combination of parameters so you can get acceptable results. I've tried to improve it without success. If you read the tooltips it is not that hard to understand what to do. If you don't know what to do even reading the tooltips then you need to familiarize yourself with FlatCAM 8.5 and then with FlatCAM beta. This means to try and see for yourself the results because there are not any tutorials for that. I was thinking to post some YouTube tutorials but I am wavering on that since I acknowledge that this is not my strong point and the quality that I can create is not what I wish to see, not without a lot of work for which I don't have the time ...

Marius Stanciu
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:03:30 GMT

In any case, just as an example, here it is a GIF that will show the process. https://gifyu.com/image/38sP Bare in mind though, that the corrections I made through editing are possible only because in the end the app used only one tool for the copper clearing. If there was more than one, by converting the MultiGeo geometry to SingleGeo it would have lost the information's regarding the toolpath width and you could not have done those corrections without having some strange results, therefore the result (without the editing) would have had some small areas that still had copper on them.