--- In [email protected], "apluscw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, yes, back OT. >
> At my last job we had some gerbers that had been outsourced and had > been originally generated using PADS. We could not import the project > file, and I had to resort to manually editing the gerber layers and > drill files when I needed to add a component. One of the bizarre > things I found is that the gerber layers had an origin at the lower > left hand corner of the board, while the gerber layers had an origin > way far out below and to the left. I had to find the offset between > the two when I added my component and moved a couple of others to get > the gerber layers and drill files to mesh. The difference was a really > odd number, too, not something even like 7 inches. It was something > like x15 mils on one axis, and some other odd number on the other. > At the end of the day both KiCAD and PCB pool came up trumps. Look in the photos section for a shot of some detail I took while constructing the prototype.
