Re: gEDA-user: gerbv potential problem

[Stefan Petersen <spe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again!

BTW I forgot to ask, is it possible to determine which CAD program that 
has been used to generate these gerber files? It usually says in the top 
of the file after some G04 remark command.

Regards,
/Stefan

Peter Baxendale wrote:
> Wow, that was quick! Hate to think what that kind of service would cost
> commercially. Many thanks!
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:59 +0100, Stefan Petersen wrote:
>> Peter Baxendale wrote:
>>> Hi gerbv people,
>>>
>>> Just posted a gerbv 2.0.0 "feature" to the gerbv bug tracker. Working
>>> with a reference design from Nordic Semiconductor I found that gerbv
>>> wasn't showing some bits around the antenna correctly (ie as shown in
>>> the Nordic documentation). Stripped it down to a few lines and the
>>> problem  seems to relate to when circular interpolation should revert to
>>> linear. All the other viewers I've tried (3 of them) show as per
>>> Nordic's design, gerbv doesn't. Of course, I can see you might argue
>>> that the others are all wrong...
>> Hi Peter!
>>
>> Thanks for the bug report. While I have been sleeping Julian has fixed 
>> the problem in CVS. If you're daring you can try out the CVS version. 
>> I've tested it and it looked like in your PNG's.
>>
>> It seems like it was one of the grey corners of Gerber that reared it's 
>> ugly head. This is the reason we like to release the code for public 
>> scrutiny to put some light on these dark corners.
>>
>> For those interested in the exact cause of this, please look at Julians 
>> explanation attached to the (now closed) bug report on gerbv's SF site.
>>
>> Thanks for your report and very good sample files.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Stefan
>>
>>
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