Dale, I can't locate exactly how I solved this put did find my starting point (pasted below) As I recal the gerber header needed to have some lines deleted and the Protel output perimeters had to be adjusted. I'm less certain on the second point. But I was able to bring the gerbers into Protel! I suggest the key is compare a Protel output gerber with a camtastic output gerber John
begin archive paste Abdulrahman Lomax, No, I didn't misunderstand your intention. I've looked into this and Protel gerber input is not compatible with Camtastic gerber output (in any available format). Protel's position, as stated in the knowledge base item 2215 is that "The Protel importer for Gerber files serves the purpose for viewing Gerbers created by Protel only. Protel was not designed to be a Gerber viewer such as CAMtastic created by third party software." They, as you did in the earlier posting, missed the point that inputting gerber to Protel is a valuable method of migrating designs to the Protel environment. Regards John Cardone OK, I've been screwing around with editing gerber files and I'm getting closer. The top of the Camtastic generated gerber file looked like this: G04 CAM Products 2000 RS274-X Output* G04 Serial Number: 0000-00-00000* G04 File Name:C:\design\spectral\Rcc00340\Rcc003\CONVERT.GBL * %FSLAX34Y34*% %MOIN*% %SFA1B1*% ... while the top of one of my Protel generated gerber files looked like this: %FSLAX24Y24*% %MOIN*% G70* G01* G75* %ADD10R,0.0160X0.0500*% I removed the first 3 lines that start with G04 and Protel accepted the file! Some parts are missing...(I really don't know why) but I'm getting closer. Any assistance to get a clean, accurate gerber load would still be useful! Tony Karavidas Dale Broemer wrote: > Does anybody know why Camtastic will not import gerbers generated from > Gerbtool? When I import, It just give a blank screen. No error message, > nothing. > Does Camtastic only read Protel and it's own generated gerbers? > > Thanks for any help. > Dale > > -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >John M. Cardone Design Engineering Group >M/S 125-14R Spacecraft Mechanical Engineering, 352 >4800 Oak Grove Dr. NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory >Pasadena, Ca 91109 MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel:818.354.5407 Fax:818.393.4399 Cell:805.796-0787 >>>>>opinons>>>expressed>>>here>>>are>>>my>>>own>>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search previous postings: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
