Jon Elson wrote: >Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > > >>Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> >>>Greetings; >>> >>>I friend has sent me an archive of .gbr files to see what I think of the >>>project. Unforch, gerbview is only showing me a black, blank screen even if >>>I surround the filenames, which have winders spaces in them, with either >>>single or dbl-quotes. >>> >>>The format of the files looks legit to me, so what sort of a viewer do I >>>need >>>to be able to both see these, and convert them to g-code? >>> >>>Here is the head from one of them. >>> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROM Pak Board]# head -n 30 ROMPAK_Bottom.gbr >>>%FSTAX23Y23*% >>> >>> >>All the gerber files I've seen have FSLA in them, not FSTA. The T means >>"Trailing" and the L means "Leading". I have no idea what they're >>trailing or leading around though :) (the X23Y23 means X and Y >>coordinates are in 2.3 digit format) >> >> >The X and Y coords have the decimal point suppressed, as you say >the industry standard is "L" for leading zero supp. That means >(for 2.3 format) the coords are just plain mils, ie. 12345 + >12.345 inches. This format is Trailing zero suppression, so >12345 would be the same, but 12 would be 12.000" > > Heh. I remembered our discussion about G-code formats on a short car ride (maybe headed to Peoria?), and I figured you'd know what all of it meant.
>>I didn't see aperture information, which could be a problem. I'm not >>sure I'd recognize it if I did see it though. >> >> >The aperture info is the %ADD100.010* which defines aperture D10 >as .010" > > I didn't recognize the aperture list, but it makes sense as you explained it. >>If the files aren't huge, you can email me one, and I can see if it >>loads in Altium. >> >> >I suspect the T is going to prevent Altium from processing it >properly, or at all. They used to send CAM350 or some gerber >viewer with their Protel software, which is a lot more general >Gerber file reader. > > Altium comes with something called "Camtastic", so it may work. - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
