It would be interesting to view this board using gerbv-2.0.X. The latest gerbv includes some facilities for debugging low-level Gerber problems under the "analysis" menu item (IIRC). gerbv also now has some error reporting during the file parsing.
I looked at your posting on sparkfun. The Gerber looks OK, so I don't think gerbv will complain. This is supported by the fact that other checkers say your Gerbers are OK. If I had to guess anything, I'd guess that *their* machine is choking on %LNFRONT*% (can't handle standard but uncommon Gerber codes), and then gets confused about what's a D and what's a G code. As somebody on that list suggested, a work-around is to delete the %LNFRONT*% and all other %LN lines from your Gerbers. If the board house actually has live humans you can communicate with, you can ask them if their machine supports the %LN<layer> code. Cheers, Stuart On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeff VR wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to drop a quick question to see if anyone here has had any trouble > with their gerbers being interpreted correctly by batchpcb drc tool. My > design looks just fine in viewmate and the protoexpress auto DRC passed the > design. > > It seems the only room for error is in the batchpcb project submission page > where it inquires about the software tool used for the design. I think this > is for the drill file number format. I'm not really sure what I needed to > put there so I tried a few different options. I opened the drill file and > it looked like the format was "1.3 normal". > > My design didn't have a back silk screen layer so I created a simple one by > hand but that didn't get around the issue either. > > This is what the log file generates from batchpcb's drc checker for both the > top and bottom layers: > Beginning GCODE run > Invalid DCODE 0 > GCode execution failed! > > Here is the thread on the support forum for batchpcb: > http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?p=44189#44189 > > Thanks, > Jeff > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
