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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:14:07PM -0400, Kelton Stefan wrote:

> I'm experiencing this strange issue where the gerbers I generate produce
> warnings when I try to import them into GC-Prevue. The warning says that
> there are self-crossing polygons. It is my understanding that Clipper is
> supposed to convert any self crossing polygons into several simple polygons.
> What can be done to ensure that it is doing its job thoroughly. Has anyone
> else experienced this issue?

Never happened to me... however it's correct that gerbers can't have
self intersecting polygons... have you tried at least the 'butterfly'
for a summary test?

Otherwise the incriminated board could be useful to pinpoint the issue

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