Quote Originally Posted by mocha View Post
Lateral thought... would it work to make all the pads on the PCB the same size?
Alas, that can't work a SOT23 device is significantly smaller with much smaller pitch vs say an SMD LED(there's not be sufficient space)....often the pads need to beof a certain size for heat disappation etc.

Jonathan, thanks for the input....food for thought there. I'm trialing cambam which is very good for cam, so there may be some mileage there. (I asked on their forum....http://www.cambam.co.uk/forum/index....5.msg13159#new )

Re USB CNC & brains...no not yet, he mentions that there's a scripting ability that has just need introduced. (I think if I went the way of USB CNC, I'd make sure I have the ability to fallback to mach3 quickly! I really like his product & it looks like by & large it'll fit my needs well - for example I asked about Z transformation & he's onto it already, he calls it warp - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-l7I...1&feature=plcp , but there's clearly not the depth of support & features if you want to go off piste. )