Overview of Mill/drill

The mill/drill available at the Engineering Department is the LPKF ProtoMat 91s/Vs. It is a circuit board plotter that can be used to produce two sided PCB’s and high frequency circuit milling.

The machine is located in the MEB 1222 Lab room. It supports both milling and drilling. Please contact Bryan Stenquist for more information.

Equipment Resources

Characteristics of the ProtoMat 91s/VS

Software

BoardMaster 3.0 (Build 143)
This is a program for the automatic control of HP-GL compatible LPKF circuit board plotters. The circuit board plotter (mill) is fully controlled through this software. The BoardMaster takes the LMD/HP_GL circuit board data created by CircuitCAM or other programs, prepares the data and produces a circuit board prototype with the ProtoMat (mill).

CircuitCAM 3.2 (Lite, PCB, PRO, Stencil) (Build 258)
This program is a combined Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) program. CircuitCAM can be used to import, check and edit circuit board production data in various CAM formats and output them into CAM format (LMD). The software is particularly useful in calculating the isolation channels between the conductor tracks in circuit board prototype production using the ProtoMat (mill).

Documents and tutorials

• ProtoMat 91s Data Sheet
• Board Master Tutorial
• CircuitCAM Manual