On Sunday 13 April 2008, Jesse Gordon wrote: >Ormund, > >If all else fails, and if you can find two documents describing in >simple terms each of the formats, I'd be willing to try making a perl script >to convert for you. But I'm pretty busy, so make sure there's not >already such free solution :-) > >Also I would need a source RS274D to test with. I'm assuming that once >my converter is working, I'd be able to view the result in gerbv. > >-Jesse > A list lurker, speaking up as I run EMC2 on a tabletop mill here.
This seems like a neat idea Jesse, but can gerbv show 3D? RS-274-D, from NIST, as interpreted by late versions of EMC2, can describe 9 different axis's & gerbv would seem to be at most a 2D display, possibly with tightly spaced overlays that can be laid on or peeled off. I'm currently setup to do 4 axis's, with the 4th being a "rotate the work surface" using the X axis as the axle to turn on, although I can lay the rotary table down and use it to present the end of the workpiece to the cutter tool too. I'd be interested in seeing such a 3+D display, although my well aged mind cannot well grasp how it might be done, let alone suggest how to do it. >Ormund Williams wrote: >> Hi All >> >> Dose anyone know of a utility to convert RS274D to RS274X? I have a few >> gerber files I want to view but they are in D format with the aperture >> list in a human readable format. I converted one manually a few years >> ago now I wish I had taken the time to write a program then. >> >> Regards >> >> __ >> Ormund >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > >_______________________________________________ >geda-user mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Budget cuts _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
