Re: gEDA-user: PCB drill file question

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

I've sent quite a few boards through BatchPCB with good success.  The 
job setup web page asks for drill format when you submit the file to the 
DRC bot. I'm not sure what I always say because I can never remember, so 
I look at the drill file every time -- it seems I get it right, mostly, 
too :) :) Anyway, I'm sure a Post-It(tm) note on my monitor would be a 
major process improvement :)

Looks like Inch, 1.3, trailing zero is the default output from PCB??

-dave

P.S. One note on BatchPCB -- the web site says "..communicate the board 
outline somehow..." -- in my experience it should really say "... put 
your board outline on top silk, because we don't look at other stuff for 
board outline..."

Oh... and one other note... three weeks is about average, but there is a 
lot of variation -- I've had it take up to 34 calendar days.  The 
process is a bit of a black hole when it comes to status reports, so 
just fire and forget, and practice your Zen calmness in the mean time. 
Or work on another design while waiting for the first one.  This weekend 
at Maker Faire I had a chance to talk briefly with the CEO of SparkFun 
-- he said the PCB vendor in China doesn't really give them solid enough 
dates that it is worth passing them on.

Eric Brombaugh wrote:
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Which version of PCB?  Mine has TZ, not LZ, there.  And I recently
>> submitted a job to batchpcb but didn't get any comments back.
> 
> I'm running the 20080202 version built from source on Fedora 6. Mine 
> also has the following INCH on line 2:
> 
> INCH,TZ
> 
>> Anyway, if you want, just have him email me directly and I'll make pcb
>> do the right thing.  We've done stuff like this for fab shops before,
>> and it helps to know what they're expecting.
> 
> I've asked him for clarification on what he wants to see there and will 
> forward the response (if any) to the list.
> 
> Eric
> 
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