X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 05:38:12 +0100 From: Laszlo Valko To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] gerbv-2.6.0 unable to read gerbers made from PADS Message-ID: <20150203053812.A31846@linux.karinthy.hu> References: <1502030351 DOT AA02946 AT ivan DOT Harhan DOT ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <1502030351.AA02946@ivan.Harhan.ORG>; from falcon@ivan.Harhan.ORG on Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:51:30AM +0000 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Hi, On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:51:30AM +0000, Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote: > Hello fellow free EDA users, > > I am having some trouble getting gerbv to view some gerbers which seem > to have been generated from PADS some time in 2009. The gerbers in > question are contained in this little tarball: > > http://downloads.openmoko.org/developer/schematics/GTA02/gta02_outline_footprints_netlist.tar.bz2 > > The only version of gerbv which I was able to install on my Slackware > system so far is gerbv-2.6.0. I tried to install 2.6.1, but the tarball > came without the usual maintainer-generated files like configure, so I > had to run autogen.sh myself. The build then failed because some > NLS/i18n-related tool was missing, and passing --disable-nls to > configure didn't help either. > > So I got gerbv-2.6.0 installed, and it seems to work in general: I can > successfully view any of the gerbers for my own pcb-made boards, for > example. But when I try to open any of Openmoko's *.pho gerbers from > the tarball cited above, gerbv doesn't seem to report any errors, but > the display window remains all black, as if each opened gerber were > empty. I opened the Gerbers with 2.6.1, and I do see the layout. However, I had to zoom out / pan quite a lot to see anything. Originally I get positioned at the origin, whereas the contents of the Gerbers are start at about 60-70cm (~25 inches) up. Try zooming out to see if your version actually loads the files correctly. Regards, Laszlo