On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 07:05:05PM +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:47:28 +0000, David SMITH wrote: > > > From a user's point-of-view, it makes life much easier because they no > > longer have the hassle of generating Gerbers (e.g. getting the correct > > version of RS274, putting in the right number of decimal places, > > including a readme file to indicate which layer is which, etc...) > > There are no such options in the gerber export dialog of pcb.
Maybe not, but it's there in other packages, though, so this info still needs to be communicated to the fab somehow (as it doesn't go in the Gerber file itself), or you rely on them making correct assumptions. Just looking at the FAQs on many of the PCB fab websites, it is clear that people make all types of mistakes generating Gerbers (layer order wrong, drill file mistakes, etc...). Being able to put this process in the hands of the "professionals" who are doing it all the time just means that errors are likely to be eliminated. -- David Smith Work Email: dave.sm...@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: david.sm...@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user