gEDA-dev: gerber importer/panelizer

[Erik Winn]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 08:29:07 pm Julian wrote:
>     Yes, we just recently split out the GUI/project reading/writing
> stuff and created a shared library with the "meat" of the gerber
> parsing/exporting/rendering/editing code.  If you end up needing a
> program with some special gerber needs, it might actually be the best
> method for you to write a custom program and link to the libgerbv
> library.  Things like file loading and parsing, extents calculations
> (for figuring out how big a board is), merging, and exporting is all

 Beautiful! Really the better part of my wishlist and precisely what I was 
thinking of.

> doable through libgerbv now.  One caveat: documentation is currently
> limited to reading through the code of the gerbv GUI portion (main.c,
> interface, render, etc)... I'm working on better docs now.

 I would be more than happy to add to documentation as much as I am able - 
with the caveat that it make take a little time as I am flat out slammed busy 
the next couple few months. But, I will probably be making notes to myself 
anyway so its not much more to make it useful for others (he said ..). 

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> confuse some software that isn't used to it.  Although I would imagine
> most software should be able to handle extra G01 commands and simply
> ignore their redundancy.  Again, please let us know if this isn't the

 I will defininitely keep an eye out - and there may be a few BatchPCB people 
that would be willing to test some of the output at some point; they run alot 
of different platforms and I got lots of nice response just to a little beta 
testing of the web-based parser. I'll make a note of it as something we might 
be able to do in future. In fact, when I make over the site a little later 
this summer, I want to add a section on free software that can be used - I 
think encouraging this sort of testing and general participation will fit 
very nicely there.

Cheers,
-- erik
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Erik Winn
BatchPCB.com
erik at batchpcb.com