Cutting PCB’s - recommendations, tools etc

[booski]

If you want a perfect, fantastic circuit board that is cut really well, I suggest you use something called Autoleveller. AutoLeveller - The height adjusting CNC software

Using a simple probe system like a croc clip attached to your machine, you can use your tool to probe the height of your PCB before cutting to get an accurate cut depth.

Simply get your g-code file from whatever your CAM output software is, import it into Autoleveller and it will automatically, based on your variables, edit the g-code to include a probe system before routing the board.

It is very clever and completely free.
Personally, I donated a fiver to the software designer as it's one of the best pieces of software I have used for cutting circuits.

[Fivetide]

booski , when you say a simple probe what do you mean ? What do you attach the other end of the croc clip to ? I couldnt see any notes on actually setting up the hardware on the site .

[HankMcSpank]

booski , when you say a simple probe what do you mean ? What do you attach the other end of the croc clip to ? I couldnt see any notes on actually setting up the hardware on the site .

The cutting booski refers to is achieving a constant depth (thereby catering for bulges & valleys on your copper board as it isolates your pcb tracks)...that's what autolevellers do.

i use CNC-USB (which has autolevelling built in), but there are other flavours out & about (indeed there was a thread discussing one that a memeber here had done a week or two ago)