This is also how we do it... I bring in the gerber from their scans and put it on mechanical layers in the Protel database. The I place the components on top of the image and move the traces from the mechanical layers to the trace layers. - Bill Brooks
-----Original Message----- From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 11:20 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] gerbers from a scan ?? 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 -- ___________________________________________________________________________ www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Integrated Controls, Inc. tel: 415-647-0480 2851 21st Street fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
