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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I actually worked with the OSHPark folks to do this for KiCad back in
the V4 days so they could accept .kicad_pcb files.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:20 AM jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le 31/07/2018 à 16:52, Jon Evans a écrit :
> > It would be nice to have a fully-scriptable "output job" system so that you can save all the Gerber
> > generation settings, all the drill generation settings, etc together, and set up a workflow of
> > generating files, naming them a certain way, packaging them in a ZIP, etc.
>
> It could be made by a Python script.
> Attached a basic python script to create gerber and drill files from a board file.
>
> Some latest options (creating a job file or a drill file in gerber format) are not available for
> python scripts, but it should be easy (famous words) to add them to the Python scripting stuff.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:24 AM Ben Hest <bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'd give that a thumbs up from as a single user's opinion.
> >
> >     On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:58 AM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >         100% percent of the time when I make drill files, I also want to make
> >         gerbers, and I want a zip file for uploading as well.
> >
> >         Is there any interest in adding some way to do this automatically?  It
> >         may be a little tricky since drills and Gerbers are two different
> >         windows, but if this is considered a bad idea I will just stop
> >         thinking about it now.
> >
> >         Adam
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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