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> I'm just trying my first pcb board with blind vias.  The rendering in
> pcb is great.
> 
> The produced gerbers look like they're probably right, but when I use
> gerb the only place I can actually see anything related to the buried
> vias is in the board_name.fab.gbr file, and the view of it doesn't
> show anything about from/to layers.  The board_name.top.gbr and
> board_name.bottom.gbr files contain many lines like for example:
> 
> X434601Y487516D01*
> X434765Y487324D01*
> X434957Y487160D01*
> 
> which look like they represent the buried vias and their destination
> layer (D01 part), but they don't show up under gerbv
> boad_name.top.gbr.
> 
> I would assume this was just a gerbv problem except that my fab just
> tried to change my board from their Blind/buries vias type to their
> through-hole type, so it looks like maybe they aren't seeing the
> buried vias either.
> 
> Am I missing something about BB vias, or might there be some real
> problem with the gerbers?

They show up on copper layers?