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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:05:00 +1030
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The translate2geda utility can be used to turn a gerber file into a
footprint, which may save you some work.

It has to do some educated guessing about pads and pins which are usually
represented as either flashed apertures or polygons. It will ignore some
pins/pads it is unsure of, but that is what you get if forced to use a
format lacking metadata like gerber to recreate a layout.

The only eda software which generates awful gerbers for reverse engineering
seems to be eagle, which draws all features as as raster of narrow lines.

Cheers,

Erich.

On 27 Oct 2017 4:11 am, "Rob Butts (r DOT butts2 AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> Thank you!
>
> I think I'm able to use PADS viewer for free which is all I need.
> =E2=80=8B
>

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<div dir=3D"auto">The translate2geda utility can be used to turn a gerber f=
ile into a footprint, which may save you some work.<div dir=3D"auto"><br></=
div><div dir=3D"auto">It has to do some educated guessing about pads and pi=
ns which are usually represented as either flashed apertures or polygons. I=
t will ignore some pins/pads it is unsure of, but that is what you get if f=
orced to use a format lacking metadata like gerber to recreate a layout.</d=
iv><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">The only eda software whic=
h generates awful gerbers for reverse engineering seems to be eagle, which =
draws all features as as raster of narrow lines.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br=
></div><div dir=3D"auto">Cheers,</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=
=3D"auto">Erich.</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gm=
ail_quote">On 27 Oct 2017 4:11 am, &quot;Rob Butts (<a href=3D"mailto:r.but=
ts2 AT gmail DOT com">r DOT butts2 AT gmail DOT com</a>) [via <a href=3D"mailto:geda-user AT del=
orie.com">geda-user AT delorie DOT com</a>]&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:geda-user@=
delorie.com">geda-user AT delorie DOT com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type=3D"attribution"><=
blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px=
 #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">Thank you!<div><br></div><di=
v>I think I&#39;m able to use PADS viewer for free which is all I need.</di=
v>=E2=80=8B</div>
</blockquote></div></div>

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