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Re: gEDA-user: dxf again
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> But my application is a little different. I want to get a DXF file that I can run through a CAM package, in particular the paste layer, which isn't a 'real' layer, unfortunately -- it is synthesized in the output HID as I understand it. And while preserving dimensions is useful in some situations, I also want to be able to do rule-based adjustments of dimensions. And I also want to be able to deal with a pcb design from any tool.
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> Anyway, my last thoughts were that pcb is the wrong place to do what I want to do. The correct place is a gerber2dxf conversion tool. The new gerbv is librarized, so one could write a front-end to libgerbv that read gerbers via libgerbv and then did the massage and output function. You might checkout the gerbv library API, and consider if maybe that is a better place to accomplish your job.
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In my Googling, I ran across an application called "pcbtodxf" that
purports to do gerber->dxf. No idea about licensing, platform etc.
So it turns out there is a bitrotted dxf exporter HID at
http://github.com/bert/pcb-dxf-hid/
I'm working my way through it, trying to get it to compile.
It's kind of slow going, like a 5400-line C file that has never been
compiled before. By that, I mean there are lots of little mistakes
like this:
void somefunction( char *s ) {
if (s == "") {
...etc...
Of course, the compiler complains to the heavens about this, and it's
an easy fix, but it makes me less than hopeful that the code's gonna
work.
Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
markrages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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