Editing Printed circuit board milling (section)

== Software ==
Software for milling PCBs is usually delivered by the CNC machine manufacturer. Most of the packages can be split in two main categories – raster and vector.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Piatt|first1=Michael J.|last2=Brown|first2=Mark E.|last3=Walters|first3=Michael A.|title=Method for fabricating printed circuit boards|date=1991|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US4991287}}</ref>

Software that produces tool paths using raster calculation method tends to have lower resolution of processing than the vector based software since it relies on the raster information it receives.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Doudkin|first1=Alexander|last2=Inyutin|first2=Alexander|title=The Defect and Project Rules Inspection on PCB Layout Image |date=2014-08-01|url=http://computingonline.net/computing/article/view/414|journal=International Journal of Computing|volume=5|issue=3|pages=107–111|doi=10.47839/ijc.5.3.414 |issn=2312-5381|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Vona|first1=M. A.|last2=Rus|first2=D.|title=Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation |chapter=Voronoi Toolpaths for PCB Mechanical Etch: Simple and Intuitive Algorithms with the 3D GPU |date=April 2005|pages=2759–2766|doi=10.1109/robot.2005.1570531|isbn=978-0-7803-8914-4|s2cid=16599567 }}</ref>