DJ Delorie wrote: > Hmmm... re-reading the thread, we are mainly talking about a regular > panelizer. Too many threads! ;-) > > Why panelize in pcb? It covers the drill file. it lets you edit the > panel before printing. It's free and we already have it. You can > panelize more than one layout onto a single panel (you can't do that > with plain step and repeat). You can edit the boards while they're > in-panel (for example, I tweak drills before printing). > > Panelizing by editing the gerbers is difficult to script, too, and a > pain to maintain. It's like trying to make corrections to a document > by editing the postscript output.
gerbv can do xy translations and I think some amount of layer merging (I could be wrong about the latter). The intent was to allow panelizing of layouts and it was supposed to be scriptable. I haven't tried myself though. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
