Cyclone PCB Milling Machine - swindonmakers/wiki GitHub Wiki

As of the end of 2018, The Cyclone was dismantled due to lack of use and the Proxxon being better at doing PCBs.

Mal donated an almost-working Cyclone PCB Milling Machine, which has since been made to work!

Step By Step Guides

Software

Toolchains Confirmed To Work

  • Fritzing, design, export Gerber -> Flatcam, export gcode -> CNC Gcode Controller, machine control
  • Eagle, design circuit, export Gerber -> Flatcam, export gcode -> ...?

PCB Design

  • Eagle - works, but steep learning curve, can generate Gerber files that work with Flatcam (gerber -> gcode)
  • 123dcircuits.io - easy to design a circuit, but exported Gerber doesn't work with Flatcam
  • Fritzing - works, is easy enough, need to work out how to get it to do single sided boards easily / by default

Geber -> Gcode Conversion

  • Flatcam looks fairly user friendly, easy to use and actively developed, tutorial on usage here:

Machine Control

  • CNC Gcode Controller looks like it should be good and has bed auto leveling support, runs okay on Windows under Java 7. java -jar CNC-GCode-Controller_libs.jar. Tutorial on usage here
  • Pronteface (or any 3d Printer software) can drive the machine around.

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