Is there a way to automatically put more than one drill hole size into Carbide Copper NC file? Editing an NC file by hand is a bit of a drag. The silk Gerber then seems to match up, pretty close anyway. I locate two PCB board holes on opposite sides and fix the board down. The Silk screen seems to require a fresh carbide copper window set to the top only and then load in the Gerber silk file.Figure out the difference and re-zero the Nomad. This required me to use the MDI commands and put the coordinates of a hole on the PCB get close to it and jog it so it hits the hole exactly. I also stopped a run and it seemed to require initialization again.

One thing I noticed is to put an rapid G0 X Y move in after a tool change so it is on the working area before changing height. Running that file again to see if I got all the holes correct with the same small drill bit** to see if it is correct and then run it again and switch to the correct drills for hole sizes. I delete the smallest holes as they are the correct size and insert a tool changes at the breaks. I then try and pick out the breaks in the drill holes sizes. Currently, I am editing a copy of the NC file that I delete the traces from as it is easy to see the difference between milling and drilling NC code. The holes seem to be mostly in the same order as the NC drill file, smallest (most of them) to largest holes. It would seem that it is best to start with a new window every time so it “forgets” anything done previously.ģ.When I load the NC file, I choose the smallest drill size for the board to drill all the holes. When I import all my imperial (inch) Gerber files into Carbide Copper with it set to metric, the holes fall where they are supposed to and it works out just fine. I exported all DipTrace Gerber files in X2 and N/C drill files* in imperial units. I am not sure if I am doing something unusual but I thought I would pass on using Export from DipTrace into Carbide Copper:

Export from diptrace