Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-27 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:12:49AM +0200, Richard wrote: > It was interesting to hear all arguments of the specialists. > But one question is open for me. If I let the board panelized in > Chine how do I get the data for the placement of the components as I > want to do the assembly here . I can no

Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-27 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:36:09AM +0200, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: > You have an special board, which is linked to other boards, and they are > repeated in X / Y as > you wish, then you add the extra features: fiducials, holding holes, cuts, > v-scores, ..., > and dump out the gerbers. More

Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-27 Thread Richard
Hello and thanks to all. It was interesting to hear all arguments of the specialists. But one question is open for me. If I let the board panelized in Chine how do I get the data for the placement of the components as I want to do the assembly here . I can not imagine that the Chinese are inter

Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-27 Thread Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
This is what they do at *tium :) http://wiki.altium.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4426668 You have an special board, which is linked to other boards, and they are repeated in X / Y as you wish, then you add the extra features: fiducials, holding holes, cuts, v-scores, ..., and dump out the ger

Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:47:14PM +0200, Richard wrote: > I tried to download and install the GerbMerg. But I was not able to > install it either on my Ubuntu computer nor on a Windows laptop, > what made me frustrated as I spent hours trying everything to get it > up and running. There are a lot

Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Matthew Beckler
Hi Richard, I know some users of KiCad prefer to use the gerbv program from the gEDA package, and I'm not sure how much effort has been put into gerbview in recent years. Please correct me if I'm wrong. For my own production needs, my board houses have always been more than happy to take my gerbe

[Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Richard
Hi to all I am new to KiCad as also to the developer community. I have designed two boards with KiCad and sent the data to china just a few minutes ago. In a first step I only sent the gerber files for a single board (Prototype for test). But as I need big quantities, I need a panelization so