On Saturday 08 September 2007, Javid Butler wrote:
>Good point about the aperature data-it should appear as a list very similar
>to a tool list. When I do a PC board the aperature file is a separate file,
>and without it you will not see anything. Did the viewer generate an error
>about a missing aperature file?
>
No, its looking (gerbview) for .pho files, doesn't allow any other choice.
gerbv-1.0.2 can see the files in the directory I unpacked them to, but "failed 
to load" any of them.
gerbv reports this for a session:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# gerbv
Error: eval: unbound variable: %fstax23y23*%
Error: eval: unbound variable: %
Error: eval: unbound variable: %fstax23y23*%

Apparently one line per attempt to load a file.

>Javid
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stephen Wille Padnos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:02 PM
>Subject: Re: [Emc-users] gerber files to g-code?
>
>> 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)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> If the files aren't huge, you can email me one, and I can see if it
>> loads in Altium.
>>
>> - Steve
>>
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