Re: gEDA-user: Any chance to edit Gerbers in gEDA or other Linux software?

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 11:51 -0700, Joerg wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After some web searching I read that gEDA gerbV will eventually contain 
>> basic editing functions. That post was from earlier this year so I 
>> assume we are quite a while away from that.
>>
>> Is there another program that can already do that to some extent? 
>> Basically where you can re-route a couple of traces to show someone 
>> "Here, this would be a better way to route that".
>>
>> So far I am doing that with <gasp> MS-Paint :-)
>>
> 
> I think there was a similar question in a german uC forum some months
> ago -- answer was that some commercial higher priced programs can read
> in gerber files. If this is what you want, and you can not find it, let
> me know, I can try to find it again.
> 

Yes, there are commercial ones that can do it. One of them is from 
Graphicode, around $500. But I am not too happy with it because it does 
not offer transparent layers. Beats me why because without transparency 
you must constantly hide and unhide layers to see what's underneath.


> I think latest gerbv can at least delete elements...
> 

That doesn't help much ;-)

-- 
Regards, Joerg

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