On 11/13/09, Gabriel Paubert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:42:33AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > Anyway, right now you won't be able to produce the corresponding > photoplotter files. > > While as far as I know Gerber only allows circular interpolation: > > http://www.artwork.com/gerber/274x/rs274xrevd_e.pdf > > it may be possible to produce elliptical arcs by using the SF > command (scaling factor). Neither the PCB nor the Gerber file > format allow to describe ellipses with arbitrary orientation.
IMO if PCB would fully support such complicated curves, it would better support something general like beziers; it would not be much harder, but more useful. Regards, Ineiev _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
