Re: gEDA-user: Tiling of PCB generated gerber files

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a need for tools such as gerber tilers and editors. I have
woondered if the gerbv couldn't be expanded to include these tasks.

Steve Meier

Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>I've designed a rather small board and would like to tile it so that I
>can produce several of those boards as one job.  I've tried a couple of
>tiling programs [1],[2], but neither of them works completely with the
>gerber files generated by PCB.
>
>[1] gbtiler - http://gbtiler.sourceforge.net/
>[2] gerbmerge -
>http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python/gerbmerge/
>
>My two questions then are:
>1) Is there a tiling package which people use with success using PCB
>generated gerber files?
>2) If not, would there be support for such a tool to be included in the
>gEDA distribution?
>
>Regards,
>-Hyrum
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