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Re: Info about Extending the Gerber format with attributes

 

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 03:59:45PM +0200, Thiadmer Riemersma wrote:

> > I'm sure you already thought of this but making X2 gerbers a plot option
> > solves both problems and it shouldn't be too difficult to implement.
> > It's probably safer this way just in case someone has a board vendor
> > that cannot handle the X2 gerbers.
> >
> >
> I have just submitted a patch that does the above.

In any case a sed or grep -v should be enough to 'purify' the gerber
files to the old standard...

IIRC we already keep different DCodes for drawing and flashing, so even
that annotation should be easy to do.

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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