New Autoleveling PCB software

[Daedelus]

Mad Professor has been aiding me a lot with running the software and testing with Mach 3. I am aware that he used the software when etching a design on a metal box lid. This shows that Autoleveller is not the sole domain of PCB designs.

Anyway, thanks Prof. Your help is very much appreciated.

[Mad Professor]

Here is one of the cases I did some engraving on that I used Daedelus Autoleveling software with.

!!! Warning !!! you may want to turn down your speakers before starting the below video.


The half cases are extruded aluminium and are anodized black, and the surface is anything but flat.

[Daedelus]

Prof. This is a great video to show the versatility of Autoleveller (i.e. not just for PCB's). Would you mind if I link to it from the web page?

[Mad Professor]

I have no problem if you wish to use the video or link to it on your web site.

[C_Bubba]

Daedelus,
Thanks for posting your software. I especially like the the fact that it is independent of the originating program. As you know, we ran into this problem with Eagle and the original developer disappeared when Eagle had a new version.

Just downloaded it and look forward to giving it a try.

[Daedelus]

No problem.

It seems quite reliable, but its still early in development so let me know if you find any bugs.

Daedelus.

[C_Bubba]

Daedelus,
Last evening, I set up Eagle V6.x so I could see how your program would work. Everything seemed to go fine, but I would like to offer a suggestion.
I can speak only for myself, but for PCB use, I have a fixed fixture on my machine and for doing operations on the TOP of the board, I use fixture 54. For Operations on the bottom of the board, I use fixture 55. So when setting up, I home the machine and load a previously saved fixture file that automatically gives the proper offsets to the various fixtures. Of course as setup, your program does not include any fixture offsets and I would suggest adding a dialogue box to indicate which fixture is going to be used when you parse an individual file. I say give the option to set one because as you say, this can be used for other operations other than PCB work and who knows what fixture offset may be needed?
Thanks in advance and so far, really like how things are setup.