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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex,

This is a mailing list for KiCad development, and your message probably
isn't appropriate for this list.  However, to short circuit the discussion:
 I use KiCad, and I have ordered PCBs through Seeed, Laen's PDX group
order/OSHPark, Advanced Circuits, Gold Phoenix...

I'm not sure what you're doing, but there are a lot of settings.  These are
the settings we use at Wayne and Layne.  They are likely not optimal, but
they work for us.

http://www.wayneandlayne.com/blog/2012/06/18/generating-gerber-files-with-kicad/

Adam Wolf
Wayne and Layne, LLC


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Alex G. <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've recently tried to order some PCBs from SeeedStudio's fusion PCB
> service. They cannot read the drill files (*.drl) generated by kicad.
> And for good reason: they don't seem to be in proper RS-274x format.
> gerbv (The gEDA version, not our gerbview) can render Kicad's *.drl just
> fine, and the workaround for me is to open them in gerbv, then export
> them in RS274x format, which then works fine.
>
> I just checked out and built the latest and greatest from lp:kicad, and
> regenerated all the gerbers, and sure enough, they are still in the old
> format. So even though I select Gerber format from the Drill File
> dialog, the generated drill file has the wrong format, and it doesn't
> even look like the format of the other generated gerbers (copper,
> soldermask, silkscreen).
>
> I found a little nice tool to check the gerbers here:
> http://mayhewlabs.com/webGerber/
>
> It's not a very solid renderer, so it won't properly render anything
> unusual. This, I believe, makes it great as a testing ground; if it
> can't properly render a gerber, what guarantees that the manufacturer's
> (proprietary) tools will.
>
> Are there plans to fix the drill file implementation? Or before I even
> jump to such arrogant conclusions (sorry guys), how do you guys handle
> drill files?
>
> Alex
>
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