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[Thiadmer Riemersma <thiadmer.riemersma@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 07:20:28PM +0200, jp charras wrote:
> > AFAIK, Gerber X2 supports netlist  (this is one of TODO features in
> Kicad).
> > Stackup info is already in our X2 files.
>
> How should X2 give a netlist? You can add an attribute to an aperture
> definition (like 'this is a pad'), but not to a single aperture flash (to
> say "this is pin 2 of U3"). In fact the only aperture attributes are the
> 'aperture usage' and the drill tolerance (for drill gerbers).


This is from a press release from Ucamco:

The attributes intentionally do not cover all possible non-image data.
> Ucamco refrained from adding the netlist to X2 as there is a simple and
> well-established format adequately describing netlists:  IPC-356-A.

(source:
https://www.ucamco.com/en/news/gerbers-new-attributs-set-to-transform-cad-to-cam-communication
)