X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: Kai-Martin Knaak Subject: Re: [geda-user] bug? in Gerber Export in PCB Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:03:25 +0200 Organization: Institut =?UTF-8?B?ZsO8cg==?= Quantenoptik Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <55B6674B DOT 9080108 AT buffalo DOT edu> <201507271725 DOT t6RHPkdo007711 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Complaints-To: usenet AT ger DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.75.103.107 User-Agent: KNode/4.14.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id t6RK44nA006765 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote: > >> Specifically, there are three issues. The first is simply figuring >> out how to specify the base directory for the gerber files. > > Specify that path as part of gerbfile > >> This bit of the GUI really needs a standard Folder Chooser. > > If you can come up with a gui-independent folder chooser, sure. It > has to work under gtk, lesstif, windows, batch, and command line. Maybe I am a bit naive. But how is this fundamentally different to the way pcb chooses files on other occasions? E.g. the "Load Layout file" dialogue. >> The second issue is the weirdness of the the output file names. > > Since we > have no concept of "group names" we assign "group%n" to internal > layers, like we assign "top" and "bottom" to those, despite what you > name the drawing layers. There s the option "first" though. It makes pcb picks the name of the first layer of a group. This tends to work out nicely for my layer stacks. >> The third issue is more serious and irritating. If I draw some stuff on >> the "Spare" layer and then generate the gerbers, the spare layer > (...) > We make an exception for the "outline" layer but > that's a hack. Could we tag a layer with an attribute as "non-copper"? ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get