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

[Xtian Xultz <xultz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Em Ter 14 Mar 2006 23:11, Steve Meier escreveu:
> 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

Why dont you tile them on pcb itself (thats what I doo).
Just uncheck the "Require unique names", copy the entire design to buffer, and 
paste them, the number of boards you need. Then, generate new gerbers and 
drill files.