Hi Dave N6NZ, [email protected],
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:14 AM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using > gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit > > > > Dave N6NZ wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:08 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > <snip> > >> If you convert the backmask or the frontmask files either > with the 'gEDA/pcb to dxf' route or the 'Gerber to dxf', you > can very quickly have your solder paste mask. > > Almost. There *is* a paste layer, although it isn't very > flexible (I have plans for that, too). The paste layer and > the mask layer are not the same. The paste layer reflects > only surface pads, not through-hole pads. > > > Thanks, Dave. I never noticed the paste layer produced by the > gerber or the postscript export. That is a great feature of 'pcb'. > > You can easily do the 'gEDA, Inkscape, pstoedit' process on > the paste layer .gbr or .ps file, and you will have your .dxf > of it for laser cutting. > > FWIW, There lives a dxf exporter for pcb in a not yet finished state at: http://github.com/bert/pcb-dxf-hid Maybe something to look at for you guys. I have ample time for further development on this exporter in the foreseeable future, so you may clone/fork as yo see fit. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
