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? > Umm, probably. I got a copy of the Gerber file spec from circling a "bingo card" in a magazine many years ago. I have no idea if they still give this out in hardcopy, but this appears to be the same manual : http://members.optusnet.com.au/~eseychell/rs274xrevd_e.pdf I have no idea if this is authorized, so you might want to download it rather than bookmark it.
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