How to create uniform hole patterns

[Julien]

For the super-nerdy among us who like to find over-engineered solutions to simple tasks, there is also the possibility to programmatically generate a CC design file that has a predefined array of circles, since CC design files are just JSON text files.

A few pages of Python script does the trick, like in this awful awful hack I experimented with a while back, to not have to manually create hundreds of shapes (and toolpaths!) manually:

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Here is something a bit different. The other day, by mistake I right-clicked on a c2d file, and it opened in my text editor. I was cursing and about to close the file but then saw that the content was clear text in a familiar (JSON) formatting. About 0.1 seconds later, my software coding itch needed scratching, and I started thinking about generating c2d files. So I wrote this Python script that generates a c2d file describing a grid of square shapes, with vertical and horizontal slots in betwe…

I have a feeling that if you asked @fenrus nicely, he would do his magic and come up with one of his online tools where you click-click-click in a web form and bam, a CC file with an array of holes would come into existence.