Hi James, Thank you for responding to my email. I'm sorry for the delayed reply, I have been out of the office and then we had hacker camp.
The output directly from gerbv is ok, but I think our approach to blending the layers creates a more life-like look. Here is an example. First we output each layer from gerbv. One layer is on, the others are alpha transparent: http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/top_silkscreen.png http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/top_copper.png http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/plated_drills.png http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/bottom_copper.png http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/bottom_silkscreen.png The using the open source ImageMagik image tools, we start to composite the layers of the board http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/background_initial.png And then add color fill: http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/background.png Then create the top and bottom backgrounds with drill holes: http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/top_background.png http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/bottom_background.png Top and bottom solder masks: http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/top_soldermask.png http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/bottom_soldermask.png Then the layers are stacked: _soldermask, _copper, _background for the final view: http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/top.png http://dirtypcbs.com/videos/bottom.png In my php script I go a bit further and add a final _copper on the top faded very light to give the impression of where the traces are. Gerblook doesn't do this, but it handles other things much better, so we are using gerblook on the new site. When I wrote my initial rendering script I tried for a while to get direct output from gerbv similar to this, but ended up ground the same way as gerblook. If there is an alternative using only gerbv I would happily adopt it. The feature I'd like to see (and would happily pay for) is a way to get the first five files with fewer processing cycles expended. Thank you and best regards, Ian On 3/14/2016 7:57 PM, James Sleeman wrote: > On 2016-03-15 00:27, James Sleeman wrote: > >> Like this for example (bottom layer, mirrored, of course you can >> de-mirror it post-process). >> >> http://imgur.com/2PWuexd >> dirtyimager.sh Through.txt TopSilk.gto TopMask.gts Top.gtl > Whoops that's the top view, for completeness, here's the (mirrored) > bottom view generated by the same script... > > http://imgur.com/HDV6yVt > > dirtyimager.sh Through.txt BottomSilk.gbo BottomMask.gbs Bottom.gbl > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Gerbv-devel mailing list > Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Gerbv-devel mailing list Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel
