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> > > Sometimes it is neccessary to draw a bord cutout and I guess a
> > > filled rectangle with cutouts would make the most sense? Or?
> >
> > We have an outline layer for that, but really, you can use any drawing
> > layer for cutouts if you tell the fab house "this gerber is for
> > cutouts".
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, this is simply inadequate for unambiguous, machine-usable
> data. I need to add explicit shape modelling.
> 
> Every board manufacturing standard that came after gerber needs better
> physical data than this approach can provide.
> 
> Peter

Would drawing primitives: circles, lines, circles segments and polygons be enough if cut out with these drawing primitives also where possible?


Nicklas Karlsson