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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Harr...

Just opening kicad.kit/gerbview/gerber_test_files/test-layer* makes it even more confusing... the files/layers get inserted at "random" locations (marked in attached image).
I'll restart...

Regards,

Clemens




On 2018-02-26 00:33, Jon Evans wrote:
> I'm having trouble reproducing this.  If you try opening some of the example Gerber files in the kicad source tree, do you see the same issue?
> 
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 6:26 PM, Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi, Jon!
> 
>     The files are newly generated proprietary %FSDAX33Y33*% (without X2 attributes AFAICT).
>     *
>     *
>     G04 PADS VX.1.2 Build Number: 698008 generated Gerber (RS-274-X) file*
>     G04 PC Version=2.1*
>     *
>     %IN "xxxxxxxx.pcb"*%
>     *
>     %MOMM*%
>     *
>     %FSDAX33Y33*%
>     *
>     ...
> 
>     I opened from a directory by File - Load Gerber File... - Shift-Clicking on the files in the order I want to load them - Open.
> 
>     (I need to click #no of file times to dismiss the warning dialog box because of the proprietary format "%FSDAX33Y33*%", which is annoying, btw.)
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Clemens
> 
>     On 2018-02-26 00:18, Jon Evans wrote:
>     > Hi Clemens, do these files have Gerber X2 attributes?  What process did you use to load them? (i.e. did you load one at a time; use a Gerber job file, load them all at once, etc)?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Jon
>     >
>     > On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cko@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:cko@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cko@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi!
>     >
>     >     I am not absolutely sure what's going on with the layer names in Gerbview. It seems that the filenames in the right layers tab view are mixed up.
>     >
>     >     Attached is an image of a 4 layer board where the filenames were selected from copper layer 1 (top) 2 3 4 (bottom) ... etc.
>     >     But in the tab view, the filenames get mixed up. The 4th line toggles Layer 4 (bottom, blue) but gerber_solder_mask_bot.pho would look completely different.
>     >
>     >     Is this a known bug/work in progress?
>     >     Is there some mystic ordering applied here?
>     >
>     >     Regards,
>     >
>     >     Clemens
>     >
>     >
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