Hi JP, (I'm Mr. Hackvana)
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:14 PM, jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > Le 15/10/2014 18:23, Jon Neal a écrit : >> >> The gerbers were generated with KiCad BZR 5101, gerber format 4.6, mm for >> the units, and absolute positioning. >> >> Another person that used the same pcb service I used had the same problem >> using the same gerber settings with BZR 4988. >> >> The service (hackvana) believes this to be a KiCad issue rather than an >> issue at the fab. I tried looking at the gerbers a bit, but I don't know >> enough about the gerber format to know what to look for. > > I had a look to you silkscreen Gerber file (rfidAndPOE-F_SilkS.gto) > > You should ask your board maker to test your files with GCPrevue. I have spoken with the factory, and they have CAM350 and Genesis2000. If a package doesn't complain, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a valid file, it means that the viewer is sufficiently tolerant of that gerber file. (As a side-project, I've been hacking on gerbmerge to improve its ability to accept malformed gerber files, rather than complain about them, where complain == crash) > You also try to use the 4.5 format (not recommended, but sometimes needed). I can't insist that my customers do this, and I don't like to mess with a customer's zip file. I like the analysis that nickoe did, which shows a strong correlation between circles in the silkscreen file, and the arcs on the board. I think we're on the right track. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I might have identified the issue. I did checkout Jon's board on his > github account, then I grepped around a bit and found that: grep > circle POE.kicad_pcb | grep "0 0)" matches almost the number of > circles that appear on silk. > > I have attached a minimal board that I think should show the bug. > Mitch, can you please try to send that though your fabs viewer? I don't have a recent version of KiCad to generate gerbers from (silly Fedora still thinks it's 2011). nickoe, can you please generate me a zip of gerbers I can pass to the factory? (hope you can try them out at gerblook.org first). My regards, Mitch. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
