Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > > 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. > Well, after having written my own Gerber to raster converter program, I know the format fairly well. I haven't put RS274-X format features into my program yet, but it supports all the stuff I generally have in my PCB artwork. Unfortunately this code is written in Turbo Pascal, and not too portable. Sometime I might have to try running it through p2c to see how bad a mess it makes.
It actually would not be hard at all to write a little program that would convert this Gerber format to standard G-code, and it would draw out the traces with the EMC preview programs. Converting from Gerber to a trace isolating cutter path would be a good deal harder. > Altium comes with something called "Camtastic", so it may work. That's right. I knew they sent some gerber viewer with the software. I don't think I got camtastic, but I may have something older. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
