Importing Gerber plotter files.

[Matt J]

Can Gerber files, as in X,Y plotter co-ordinates, be imported into R14?

An example of a Gerber file opened in Wordpad below.
Can this plotter data be utilised somehow. The Gerber files were created by
the DOS program EasyGerb.

Please email me with any ideas.
Thanks.

Matt
m.ja...@technical-lamp-supplies.co.uk

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[hmk...@my-dejanews.com]

In article <tXad2.223$W3....@newsr2.u-net.net>,

"Matt J" <m.ja...@technical-lamp-supplies.co.uk> wrote:
> Can Gerber files, as in X,Y plotter co-ordinates, be imported into R14?
>
> An example of a Gerber file opened in Wordpad below.
> Can this plotter data be utilised somehow. The Gerber files were created by
> the DOS program EasyGerb.
>
> Please email me with any ideas.
> Thanks.
>
> Matt
> m.ja...@technical-lamp-supplies.co.uk
>
> D02*
> D12*
> X7829Y479D02*
> Y204D01*
> Y154*

...
> M02

Matt, you don't need to post all the lengthy content of a Gerber file. Just
posting a few lines is enough.

No, I don't think that it can be directly imported into R14 without using any
third-party program. However, since I am also using TwinCAD, an AutoCAD
clone, I found that it has a GBRIN command that can do the job. I don't know
much about Gerber file, but I've tested it with an example. It requires me
to setup the gastures shape and size for each D# or load and convert existing
gasture data file of some known format. It works fines. I can see the
converted result of a PCB layout.

If this is what you want, you may download a free trial version of TwinCAD
from http://www.twincad.com. The GBRIN command was written in TCL (TwinCAD
Command language, a c-like language), so you will have to have the GBRIN.TCL,
which, I believed, should also be included in the download.

Hope this help.

Tomas Kang

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[hmk...@my-dejanews.com]

Oops! Sorry, no "gasture", it is "aperture" I means.

Tomas Kang

In article <7542b0$nmd$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,

hmk...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <tXad2.223$W3....@newsr2.u-net.net>,
> "Matt J" <m.ja...@technical-lamp-supplies.co.uk> wrote:

> > Can Gerber files, as in X,Y plotter co-ordinates, be imported into R14?
> >
> > An example of a Gerber file opened in Wordpad below.
> > Can this plotter data be utilised somehow. The Gerber files were created by
> > the DOS program EasyGerb.
> >
> > Please email me with any ideas.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Matt
> > m.ja...@technical-lamp-supplies.co.uk
> >
> > D02*
> > D12*
> > X7829Y479D02*
> > Y204D01*
> > Y154*