I have scanned this thread, but other than the first post, I am not
clear on the goal of your efforts. If you are really just trying to
"panelize" boards into a step and repeat pattern, there is an easier
way to do it. The RS-247X Gerber format has a step and repeat
command that will allow you to easily indicate your panel
specs. Layout the board once, and then add the step and repeat
command to indicate the X and Y spacing of the boards. This does not
cover the drill file, but that is easily extended by repeating the
drill instructions with the X and Y values incremented appropriately.
Is there a need to generate the entire panel in the layout
program? With a little effort, the panel could be viewed without
actually duplicating all of the tracks and components. Then other
items could be added to the panel such as global fiducials.
Rick
At 07:16 PM 9/16/2008, you wrote:
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 19:07 +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
> Saving a copy of the block into a file, doing the renumber with sed,
> and importing the resulting copies was what I did.
I wrote a PCB plugin to do this. It is a little ugly - uses a fixed-name
temp file, makes assumptions - that various operations work, but it
"works for me".
The action is "sedrename", which pops up a dialog box to enter the sed
expression. It remembers the last expression entered, and the rename
just operates on elements - not the netlist.
Best wishes,
--
Peter Clifton
Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
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Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
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