Re: gEDA-user: a pcb level panelizer tool

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> Hmmm... re-reading the thread, we are mainly talking about a regular
> panelizer.  Too many threads!  ;-)
> 
> Why panelize in pcb?  It covers the drill file.  it lets you edit the
> panel before printing.  It's free and we already have it.  You can
> panelize more than one layout onto a single panel (you can't do that
> with plain step and repeat).  You can edit the boards while they're
> in-panel (for example, I tweak drills before printing).
> 
> Panelizing by editing the gerbers is difficult to script, too, and a
> pain to maintain.  It's like trying to make corrections to a document
> by editing the postscript output.

gerbv can do xy translations and I think some amount of layer merging (I 
could be wrong about the latter).  The intent was to allow panelizing of 
layouts and it was supposed to be scriptable.  I haven't tried myself 
though.

-Dan



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