At 04:28 AM 6/14/2005, Adeel Malik wrote:
We have some old PCBs designed and laid out on Easy PC
Software (DOS Version). We want to convert its manufacturing files
reliably to Gerber format. I downloaded an EasyGerb software from
website that was specified for generating Gerbers for Easy PC PCB. When
I sent those gerbers to the PCB manufacturer, he complained that the PCB
file data is not correctly represented in the gerbers along with other
problems.... Can someone suggest some other reliable means for
generating the gerbers for Easy PC software.
Four comments.
(1) You should really look at the gerber data yourself, both with a gerber
viewer and with a text editor. I would not necessarily trust the judgement
of a fabricator without confirmation. If you are a Protel user, you might
have CAMtastic, but there are also many free viewers out there.
(2) Somewhere I have files for installing DOS EasyPC, or something called
something like that, from AMSCad. The first CAD system I used was CADStar,
a horrible pig, and EasyPC was actually an improvement at something like 2%
of the price. (An improvement in some ways, most notably ease of use;
certainly it was not an improvement in all ways.) Then I went to Tango DOS,
which was a great improvement in all ways over EasyPC, and not really that
much more expensive. At that time, the cost of the software was a
significant issue for me (CADStar was given to me, I still have the whole
set, software and manuals, about $13,000 worth of software at the time.)
(3) I might be able to help with this job, as could other designers, I'd
guess. That's what I do, consult. I'd start out with the gerber data and
would only go into EasyPC if needed. To my memory -- it has been more than
ten years -- configuration for gerber output was a bit arcane in EasyPC and
the problem might be there. If interested, contact me off-list.
(4) There are probably other EasyPC users out there who could help. I'd ask
on sci.electronics.cad. I don't have a newsreader installed any more, so I
googled the newsgroup name and presto, several different web interfaces to
the newsgroup.
best of luck!
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