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Gabriel Paubert wrote:

> The trouble is that the Excellon format for inch is set in stone and
> defined as 4 decimal places, i.e., 0.1 mil resolution: 
(...)
> Metric Gerber produced by PCB use micron as the resolution for both
> drill and photoplotter files.

Yay, for SI units! ;-)

1/10000 of an inch is 2.5 µm. So it is not that far off. 

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