i have heard of this working, if i were doing it i think i would re-draw
the thing in protel on top of the imported gerber
don't forget you're going to need a good drill file too!
good luck and keep us posted
Dennis Saputelli
Robison Michael R CNIN wrote:
>
> 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
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