gEDA-user: Vendor Resource File format documentation?

[Neil Hendin <neil_hendin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am just working on my 3rd board (the first of any real complexity) with gEDA and am for the most part having no problems at all, thanks to all of you for that!    This board will be sent to a board shop called APCircuits  (http://www.apcircuits.com) in Canada. (the first board was made on a PCB routing machine here, and the second was very simple and I fixed the following question by hand editing the drill file).  

They have a standard list of drill sizes they support, and will charge extra for additional ones.  Some of the standard footprints may be one drill size off (say just a couple of mils different) and I would like to avoid the extra cost if possible.  They can do drill substitution if you ask, but I would rather see the artwork as is and not have them change it.    It seems  that the "vendor resource file" would allow me to do the drill mapping, but I can't find documentation on  the file format.

Does anyone have a current vendor resource file for this shop, or can someone point me to the documentation for this file, and I will attempt to make one.   Note I have the board placed and ready to route, so it is possible according to the documentation that I have been able to find that the mapping only applies to _new_  pads, not existing ones.

Thanks!

--Neil.



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