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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

> On 07/01/2010 04:22 PM, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> > Anyhoo, as my changes will be available in the next several
> > weeks, you might want to hold of on GenCAD 1.4.

Well, as I've said, trouble with gencad is that every tool seems to want
a different 'flavour' of gencad. While the original export was mostly
compliant (lacked the ARTWORK section IIRC, which could be fixed with
a single fputs...) it was actually rejected by *every* tool I threw it
to. Our flying probe tester insists on a padstacks section, which is, by
the standard, completely optional.

So even if I have a good export today (mostly generating padstacks), it
may actually choke some tool which accepted the previous one...

The sad thing is that no-one seems to accept the IPC-D-356 which is
actually designed for board testing :(

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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