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["Alex G." <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

On 01/28/2013 10:56 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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 did want to send this to the devel list specifically. Reason: if I had
enough experience with the kicad source, I would fix this. I am too rare
of a contributor to afford to say things like "this looks broken and we
should fix it", so I tone down a little bit.


> 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/
>
I do want to thank you for your suggestion. It does produce files very
close to RS-274x format.

Alex

> Adam Wolf
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Alex G. <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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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