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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:19:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] another (hopefully) quick question
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On 06/11/2014 09:35 PM, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>>> Solution 2 is what I've been doing for years. Merging the photoplotter
>>> files manually is relatively easy (even if having tools for this would 
>>> be nice).
>>
>>   Got it...Thanks for the suggestions, guys.
>>
>>   Gabriel, can you tell me how you do the gerber merge, and what tool(s)
>> you use?  
> 
> cat and emacs :-)

  Ahh, a real man. :-)  I live in emacs pretty much all day myself.

> cat to concatenate the two files to a new one (always keep the originals!).
> 
> Then under a text editor (I use emacs since it keeps the DOS line breaks)):
> - eliminate the M02 at the end of the first file,
> - move the header which is just after this removed item to after
>   the header of the first file
> - merge the headers by hand, this is easy since right now pcb allocates
>   non overlapping aperture ranges for each file. You must remove the 
>   duplicate %MO and %FS parameter lines, which must be identical,
>   (same for %IP if it were present). The other parameters are less critical
>   but I prefer to keep the %LN from the first file.
> - for the comment (G04) lines, do what you want, keeping in mind that
>   only printable ASCII characters are allowed with the exception of % and *.
> 
> That's about all, but I may have forgotten something.
> Then I always check the results under gerbv.

  Perfect.  I'll be giving this a shot today.  Thank you!

                 -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA