--- In [email protected], "fuzzyviv" <fuzzy...@...> wrote: > > Hi > > I was recently successful in panelizing KiCad output Board with other cad > output boards in one panel by using GerbMerge. > I am posting the steps I took to achieve this.
Hi Vivek, I've been working on a Kicad support site that I'm hoping to make a little more public when I figure out if it would be useful at all. I was wondering if you would be interested in submitting your panelizing work for the site. Write now, the demo is running locally on my server (screenshot: http://personal.stevens.edu/~lsimons/kicademy.png) since I don't want to step on anyone's toes until I get some responses from the community. I believe a more newcomer friendly support site would go a long way to increasing and satisfying the userbase. I welcome any comments and suggestions. > > (Had it been all KiCad boards, i would have used the append board option > within KiCad.) > > In the process I found that the KiCad excellon drill file is not acceptable > to either GerbMerge or Gerbv. > ("Gerbv" shows excellon drill files, which kicad's internal Gerber Viewer > (gerbview) does not show, i think. it is a feature request please.) > > Steps--- > 1. Create Gerbers from KiCad. > 2. Create Drill file with settings - > # Drill Units: inches > # Zeros Format: supress leading zeros > # Precision: Either 2.3 or 2.4 > # Drill Origine: Absolute > # Drill Sheet: None > # Mirror Y Axis: OFF > # Minimal Header: ON Drill file from KiCad with following settings - > (reference: http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=1980 ) > > - the .drl file produced by these settings is acceptable to gerbv, and shows > out correctly, however editing this file is required for it to work with > GerbMerge as follows. > > * Edit the excellon (.drl) file > (a) to remove code: G05 > after first % and before T01 > (b) to remove: T0 > before the the M30, which is at the end of file. > > Now all the KiCad files can be read by GerbMerge. > > --caution: I dont know if removing these codes harm the standard format. They > "looked" ok to me after generation. > Tool T0 was not defined so Gerbmerge did not like it. > I dont know why Gerbmerge did not like G05. > (can anybody explain both) ? > > Any pointers on this shall be helpful. Thank you. > > References: > GerbMerge > http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python/gerbmerge/ > Gerbv > http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/ > > Best Regards > Vivek > > -- > If bored watch my robot dance: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlawTD_9B0 > Regards, Louis
