I am a little confused here. Are we discussing taking a gerber file and using it to generate the component location/rotations for a pick and place machine?
If we are wouldn't it be a lot easier to use the pcb file to generate the file? Steve Meier John Griessen wrote: > Dave N6NZ wrote: > >> John Griessen wrote: >> >> >>> 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. >>> >> On my SO silk, the sides of the part are inside the pads, not outside. >> Will it recognize those? >> > > Those will only get recognized by a further improved version, not the first > cut version. > First cut will use enclosing boxes, then human input. > > I'm planning on redoing my silk outlines that are compact like that, and > make courtyard boxes instead, because robots placing parts is a wonderful > thing. > > > John G > > PS this hack will have to wait til after I return, 7 March ++. > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user