hi i have different pcbs, that i want to submit to a manufacturer, that allows "nutzen"/tiled pcbs. dj wrote some scripts to do this (pcb2panel etc. see http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/). but those trigger a pcb bug, when i rotate some of the outlined pcbs when calling panel2pcb (and when opening the eventually created pcb afterwards). namely it outputs "Error while clipping PBO_SUB: 3" and removes away a polygon (created by MorphPolygon(Selected)). i'll try to investigate and submit a bug report with a simple example hopefully...
i then tried some python scripts by andrew sterian named gerbmerge (http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python/gerbmerge), which would be nice because it can autoplace the boards while optimizing the space used. it has problems with pcb's drill files, because it seems to require a (non-)leading zero indicator in the "INCH"-line. error message was '... File "...gerbmerge-1.6/gerbmerge/jobs.py", line 699, in parseExcellon raise RuntimeError, 'File %s has uninterpretable line:\n %s' % (fullname, line) RuntimeError: File ../testboard/export/board.unplated-drill.cnc has uninterpretable line: INCH' either changing the inch line to "INCH,TZ" or patching jobs.py line 88 from "xzsup_pat = re.compile(r'^INCH,([LT])Z$')..." to "xzsup_pat = re.compile(r'^INCH(,([LT])Z)?$')..." make it work. only remaining problem is, that it does only support a single drill file per board and i have both plated and unplated holes... what are your experiences, what do you use? -- Kind regards, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user