If Eagle can import the gerber file and convert it to an Eagle board the n the trace isolation gcode from an Eagle board program is already done. I'' look later tonight to see if Eagle will import the gerber files or if a User Language Program is needed and/or available. I've never needed to try it but I'm very familiar with Eagle for initial drawing and converting/milling boards.
Dale Sven Mueller wrote: > Jon Elson wrote on 09/09/2007 19:24: > >>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. > > > Does any sort of publicly available documentation exist for the gerber > file format? > > >>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. > > > Not _too_ hard though, I think and certainly a task I would like to > tackle. This would result in a commandline tool* (or QT based, I don't > like GTK that much), which takes a text based configuration and a gerber > file. Also I think that at least Eagle is able to output an inverted > gerber file (i.e. "printing" not the traces but the non-trace/isolation > areas), which would make this whole thing a lot easier. > > regards, > Sven > > *: Probably a prototype in Perl with final implementation in C/C++ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
