On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:01:47PM +0200, jp charras wrote: > Gerber X2 fixes a *major issue*: the stack order. > Therefore IMHO, accepting X2 gerbers is not a matter of years.
The stack order issue was solved from the start with stackup drawings. However having a standard and internal labelling in the file is nice. > After loading a GERBER X2 file: > Gerbview does not choke (run fine). > Gerb does not choke ( has only some warnings) > GC-Prevue does not choke ( has only one warning) cam350 doesn't even recognize them as gerbers gerbtool works fine (not even a warning, strangely) > What do you mean? currently, Kicad does not know planes. The problem is exactly that; the recommended way would be plot antipads on planes, not plotting the plane 'around' the antipad. In practice I don't agree with them, I don't see how could it give clearance problems (if coordinates have sufficient resolution). > If you are talking about negative objects in Gerber files examples, I do > not see any reason to use negative objects in gerber files (at least for > copper layers): this is known as a bad practice. It's useful for split planes, and used by CAD systems which use power planes with splits (i.e. special kind of layers declare as plane). -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
