Hi Adam, On 01/28/2013 10:56 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Hi Alex, > > This is a mailing list for KiCad development, and your message probably > isn't appropriate for this list. However, to short circuit the > discussion: I use KiCad, and I have ordered PCBs through Seeed, Laen's > PDX group order/OSHPark, Advanced Circuits, Gold Phoenix... > I did want to send this to the devel list specifically. Reason: if I had enough experience with the kicad source, I would fix this. I am too rare of a contributor to afford to say things like "this looks broken and we should fix it", so I tone down a little bit.
> I'm not sure what you're doing, but there are a lot of settings. These > are the settings we use at Wayne and Layne. They are likely not > optimal, but they work for us. > > http://www.wayneandlayne.com/blog/2012/06/18/generating-gerber-files-with-kicad/ > I do want to thank you for your suggestion. It does produce files very close to RS-274x format. Alex > Adam Wolf > Wayne and Layne, LLC > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Alex G. <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I've recently tried to order some PCBs from SeeedStudio's fusion PCB > service. They cannot read the drill files (*.drl) generated by kicad. > And for good reason: they don't seem to be in proper RS-274x format. > gerbv (The gEDA version, not our gerbview) can render Kicad's *.drl just > fine, and the workaround for me is to open them in gerbv, then export > them in RS274x format, which then works fine. > > I just checked out and built the latest and greatest from lp:kicad, and > regenerated all the gerbers, and sure enough, they are still in the old > format. So even though I select Gerber format from the Drill File > dialog, the generated drill file has the wrong format, and it doesn't > even look like the format of the other generated gerbers (copper, > soldermask, silkscreen). > > I found a little nice tool to check the gerbers here: > http://mayhewlabs.com/webGerber/ > > It's not a very solid renderer, so it won't properly render anything > unusual. This, I believe, makes it great as a testing ground; if it > can't properly render a gerber, what guarantees that the manufacturer's > (proprietary) tools will. > > Are there plans to fix the drill file implementation? Or before I even > jump to such arrogant conclusions (sorry guys), how do you guys handle > drill files? > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
