In Australia, the dominance of Protel means that all local fabricators
can deal with it.
Overseas, there's a much higher probability that your chosen fabricator
won't have a copy of Protel (and if they do, it often isn't the current
release). So if your board's going to go out to quote by a number of
fabricators, you need to supply gerbers unless you know that all of
them can speak Protel.
Having said that, I always supply the PCB file...
John Haddy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 29 June 2001 2:39 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [OT] Gerber vs PCB files
>
>
> Reading through the proteledaforum mailing list the past few days it has
> come to my attention that most people supply gerber files to their PCB
> manufacturer. This came as a bit of a surprise as I (and all
> other designers
> at our company) have always supplied the PCB file to our manufacturer and
> let them generate the gerber files. I thought this was how most people did
> it.
> We never get calls to explain details and have had no incorrect PCBs
> supplied, except for one occasion where 1.6mm thick stock was used instead
> of 0.8mm, this was clearly specified on our order/quote, and was therefore
> corrected at their expense.
> So my question is why do it? What are the advantages of sending gerber as
> opposed to PCB files?
>
> Tom.
>
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