Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
Rob Butts wrote: > So if in preferences I set the board size to 1550 x 1550 and draw on an > outline layer a 1500 x 1500 outline the board size will be 1.5" x 1.5"? Yes. (Unless you set the unit to "mm"...) ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
Thanks everybody! On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:53 PM, DJ Delorie <[1]d...@delorie.com> wrote: At fabs, there's almost always a human looking at the outlines. In the no-touch cases I've seen, they always spec "the centerline of a 10 mil line" as the outline. Our fab drawing says exactly that too. ___ geda-user mailing list [2]geda-user@moria.seul.org [3]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user References 1. mailto:d...@delorie.com 2. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 3. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
At fabs, there's almost always a human looking at the outlines. In the no-touch cases I've seen, they always spec "the centerline of a 10 mil line" as the outline. Our fab drawing says exactly that too. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
> ... you can either rename a layer ... ... you can either rename an unused empty layer ... > ... that exclusively contains the objects in the outline layer. ... in particular, no vias and pins. > ... the width of the lines does not matter. The fab will cut the board > at the center of the lines. Is this universally true? At least our milling machine mills the outline on the outer edge of the lines. The guy who runs the machine says, he cannot easily tell the programm to mill along a center line. I prefer to keep the line width within tolerances to both sides, so if the fab ignores my README specifying the centerline, it is no big deal. -- Stephan ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
So if in preferences I set the board size to 1550 x 1550 and draw on an outline layer a 1500 x 1500 outline the board size will be 1.5" x 1.5"? On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <[1]kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de> wrote: Rob Butts wrote: > The help link above makes it sound like PCB will generate the outline > automatically to the 'outline' layer absolute edge. > I tried to make the text more help text explicit: [2]http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips?&#how_do_i_make_a_board_outl ine_to_go_with_my_gerbers_to_the_board_maker ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover [3]http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: [4]http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get ___ geda-user mailing list [5]geda-user@moria.seul.org [6]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user References 1. mailto:kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de 2. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips?&#how_do_i_make_a_board_outline_to_go_with_my_gerbers_to_the_board_maker 3. http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de/ 4. http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get 5. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 6. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
Rob Butts wrote: > The help link above makes it sound like PCB will generate the outline > automatically to the 'outline' layer absolute edge. > I tried to make the text more help text explicit: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips?&#how_do_i_make_a_board_outline_to_go_with_my_gerbers_to_the_board_maker ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key:http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
Rob Butts writes: > I'm trying to provide Dorkbot PDX with gerbers for a two-layer circuit > board. They require an outline gerber so I followed the > http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips#how_do_i_make_a_board_outline_to_go_with_my_gerbers_to_the_board_maker > instructions > by naming the active layer which for me was the component layer 'outline'. No. You need to add an extra outline layer, which is empty except for the board outline, which needs to be drawn as a closed seqence of lines (and/or arc?). > I then exported the gerber file and the outline gerber still shows nothing. > The help link above makes it sound like PCB will generate the outline > automatically to the 'outline' layer absolute edge. No such automatism. > Do I have to draw these lines in or does PCB do this and what should I see > when viewing the outline gerber layer? Yes, you need to draw them. The fab gerber includes an outline trace, which is the 'absolute edge' of your design when there is nor outline layer. -- Stephan ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gerber outlines
That's the way to do it. Try checking the "all-layers" option. Also, watch out for spaces or capitalization in the "outline" name. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
gEDA-user: gerber outlines
I'm trying to provide Dorkbot PDX with gerbers for a two-layer circuit board. They require an outline gerber so I followed the [1]http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips#how_do_i_make_a_board_outlin e_to_go_with_my_gerbers_to_the_board_maker instructions by naming the active layer which for me was the component layer 'outline'. I then exported the gerber file and the outline gerber still shows nothing. The help link above makes it sound like PCB will generate the outline automatically to the 'outline' layer absolute edge. Do I have to draw these lines in or does PCB do this and what should I see when viewing the outline gerber layer? Thanks References 1. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips#how_do_i_make_a_board_outline_to_go_with_my_gerbers_to_the_board_maker ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
