Re: gEDA-user: Turning off gerber Poly Fill for square pads

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Olson wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:51:41 pm DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> The issue is that isolations programs like CopperCAM and GCAM
>>> ignore the G36 G37 commands and thus draw the pad as 4 traces
>>> in a sqaure shape and then isolating the inside of the pad because
>>> it thinks they are traces.
>>>
>>> They draw those four lines using the last defined aperature so the
>>> pad ends up being too large besides.
>> In other words, they're broken and it's our fault?
>>
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> Dude! No one is blaming fault on PCB. It is obviously the other guys
> fault for not implementing all the R274X features properly. Just asked a 
> simple question needing your simple answer which you gave nice
> and quickly. Thanks.

have you tried the gerbv export command?  I don't know what it does for 
polygons but in general I think it produces a simpler gerber output than 
what you fed into it.



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