Many, many thanks for your help/answer,
You say exactly what I also mean. However I have this error
message!
Perhaps they request no leading zeros?
I will try again to contact eurocircuits, but it is not easy.
The site has changed, and I was not able to send a question!
Regards,
Jean-Paul
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Objet : [kicad-users] Re: Urgent drl file problem
--- In [email protected] <mailto:kicad-users%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Jean-Paul Gendner" <jean-paul.gend...@...> wrote:
> I have tested that the generated Kicad drill file is an ASCII
> file.
>
And it's indeed an excellon drill file...
> The second file I have sent begins as follows:
> M48
> INCH,TZ
> T1C0.031
> T2C0.039
> T3C0.040
> T4C0.120
> %
That's the header with unit and tool definition...
> G05
This is the 'now start drilling stuff'
> T1
This means 'pick tool 1' (as defined before)
> X7000Y-1500
> X7000Y-1700
These are the hole locations. It's a perfectly fine excellon drill tape to
me...
> However, I get now from eurocircuits the error message: GERBER
> drillmaps are NOT supported.
Drillmaps??? first the drill tape is in excellon format, not gerber; second
the 'drill map' is *another thing* and it's used by the operator to verify
that the drill file was loaded correctly, it isn't used to fabricate the
board!
> May any one give me information on how I may generate a non
> Gerber drill file with Kicad?
Kicad only creates excellon drill files; it can also generate a drill map in
various formats (ps, hpgl and gerber).
The drill file is the .drl one, the map is the -drl.ps or -drl.pho or
whatever, but the one needed to drill the board is only the .drl (which you
correctly sent).
Also, I've read the eurocircuits guidelines... it says:
Artwork: Gerber RS-274X (Extended gerber with embedded apertures)
==> The .pho files from kicad are of this type
Drilling: Excellon (1 or 2) + appropriate tool list (ideally embedded)
==> The .drl file is an excellon 2 with embedded tool list. The external
tool list is given in the drill report file
All the files are ASCII ones, no EIA or EBCDIC stuff... *maybe* but only
maybe if you're under Linux they could have unix line terminations instead
of DOS ones (a 'file' command would confirm this). Maybe it's this their
problem? (gencad files often don't load with unix terminators)
