Re: gEDA-user: BatchPCB

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

FWIW I just re-submitted, unchanged, the design files for a 48mm x 96mm 
board that was successfully fabbed by BatchPCB a few weeks ago, just to 
see if it still passed DRC or if something in their drc-bot has changed. 
  This has front/back silk, front/back mask, front/back copper, and I 
said "1.3 normal" on the drill file. This file contains bunches of 
%LN<blivit>% lines.

It passed DRC. So.... ????  I'm not a gerber parser, so I'll just toss 
that data into the discussion and leave the rest to the gerber experts.

-dave

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> I looked at your posted Gerbers a little more.  I can't find any
> syntax errors.  (And PCB is generally very good about producing
> syntactically good Gerber.)
> 
> FWIW, I did notice that your numeric format was %FSLAX24Y24*% 
> This means:  2.4 format, suppress leading zeros.  This means 2 number
> to the left of the decimal point, and 4 to the right, with leading
> zeros removed.  For example:  3.426, 23.623, etc/.
> 
> Make sure you configured your upload to reflect 2.4 format.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeff VR wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I wanted to drop a quick question to see if anyone here has had any trouble
>> with their gerbers being interpreted correctly by batchpcb drc tool.  My
>> design looks just fine in viewmate and the protoexpress auto DRC passed the
>> design.
>>
>> It seems the only room for error is in the batchpcb project submission page
>> where it inquires about the software tool used for the design.  I think this
>> is for the drill file number format.  I'm not really sure what I needed to
>> put there so I tried a few different options.  I opened the drill file and
>> it looked like the format was "1.3 normal".
>>
>> My design didn't have a back silk screen layer so I created a simple one by
>> hand but that didn't get around the issue either.
>>
>> This is what the log file generates from batchpcb's drc checker for both the
>> top and bottom layers:
>> Beginning GCODE run
>> Invalid DCODE 0
>> GCode execution failed!
>>
>> Here is the thread on the support forum for batchpcb:
>> http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?p=44189#44189
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
> 
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