hello, i guess our customer on this board rebuild job is happy with us and has given us a bunch more boards to do. over half of them are simple two-sided boards. with no existing gerbers, up til now i've been recreating these in protel with a stripped board and a set of calipers.
this issue has been sitting on the backburner for me a while, but bob wolfe mentioned something close to it and now my interest is piqued. there is another facility here on base that can take an existing board that's stripped and somehow scan or photograph the surface and generate gerbers from that. they want me to go over and check it out and give them an idea of whether this is a good idea and what kind of problems might be involved with this process. my question: what am i likely to find when i go over there? i'm going to assume that there is some scanning or photographic hardware thats associated with some software program that converts a raster image into the vectorized gerber files. are you guys familiar with this kind of setup? what are some of the software/ hardware setups employed for this? surely its better than me sitting here re-creating the boards by hand. any comments will be appreciated. thanks, miker * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
