Re: gEDA-user: gerbv and eagle - crashed - retested again

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Stefan Petersen wrote:
> Hello Holger!
>
> Even if you're not shure why, are your patches still valid? I want the
> script on the website to be as correct as possible, but I'm not sure
> wheter your changes are OK or not for general use.
:) well, they were required when I used them and worked for my special 
case. I mentioned them just to show how we solved the problem.

But I'm still using a 4.09 license of eagle and have no idea whether the 
drill file output has been changed in 4.1 and how things are behaving now.

'print OUTFILE "INCH,LZ\n";' was necessairy because the Windows tool our 
manufacturer used did not used an inch metric by default and the 
generated files did not specified the used metric.

The "%.03f"-printf magic was required because otherwise the generated 
files were inconsistent (drills were specified in inches, drill 
positions in mil, default unit depended of the used viewer). I realized 
that the coordinate unit in the Eagle output files varies with the 
selected unit of the grid, but I didn't investigated this further, for 
our files the hack above was sufficient. Maybe we should ask the cadsoft 
support people what unit is used in which case - they are usually pretty 
helpful when you ask them...

Holger