On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 17:45 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote: > Hi -- > > I've been playing around with the reporting facilities which have been > put into gerbv, and I have noticed that PCB seems to define more > apertures (using %AD) than it uses in drawing features. > > I have noticed that if I use a certain aperture on layer X, then the > definition for that aperture appears in all layers whether it's used > in that layer or now.
IIRC, that behaviour was added to support broken cam software (Circuit CAM, as used by LPKF machines). > That does explain why many more apertures are > defined in each layer than are used in that layer. Pass on that one. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
