I'm currently thinking of what would be needed to make gerbv a full-featured panelization tool.
I think we've already got much: . a good Gerber and Excellon parser (better than many other parsers) . the option to translate, mirror or rotate layers . the option to write the output file back . a GUI giving the user an idea about what's going on I think the next feature that would be needed for panelization is an option to merge two layers. I'm trying to find my way through gerbv_image_t. Is there a bit more of explanation beyond the few comments in gerbv.h? My current guess, after digging through an image read from a RS274X file is about that: . obviously, make sure both images have the same layertype . apertures need to be merged Well, for a start, I guess it's ok to not optimize, and just start at APERTURE_MAX/2 for the merged-in image, but later on, apertures should be optimized; a temporary translation table will result . layers What about multiple layers, just append them? Where are they referenced? . states, amacro I have no idea about these. Just concatenate the lists? . info Calculate new max bounds? . netlist Concatenate the lists, rewriting the aperture number according to the translation table from above. . gerbv_stats, drill_stats Just add both. Well, I see there is already a function merge_images() in callbacks.c. I don't think it follows the idea I have in mind though, but maybe both ideas could be combined? Would appreciate any feedback. -- cheers, Joerg .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gerbv-devel mailing list Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel
