Dan McMahill wrote: > Stuart Brorson wrote: > >> Another CAD format, ODB++, is a newer, smarter format for PCB CAD. >> Although I haven't read the spec in detail, I believe it has the >> necessary knowledge to support Lil Bro's request. We've discussed >> supporting it in both PCB and in gerbv in the past. However, it's only >> been talk so far. Can your buddies over at Lil Brother accept ODB++? > > I could be wrong here, but as near as I can tell ODB++ is a proprietary > format. [jg]What my searching found, too.
> > I'm just amazed that you can get any sort of useful pick and place > program without having an x-y file to start with from the board layout > tool. It would seem like the task of cleaning up an x-y file would be > way easier than coming up with one from scratch. James of Lil Brother says it's a business reality. > > RS274-X makes no distinction between traces and pads, has no way of > naming pads, etc. Besides, even if it did, it would be up to each CAD > vendor to actually do something useful with that capability. The minimalist hack I am planning is to find the silk layer elements that touch each other first, then the intersection of the max extents of those with pad centers and call that a group. Then get human input to weed the groups and add the missing. John G -- Ecosensory Austin TX tinyOS devel on: ubuntu Linux; tinyOS v2.0.2; telosb ecosens1 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user