gEDA-dev: gerber importer/panelizer

[Erik Winn]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 08:18:49 am Julian wrote:
> Erik,
>     I'm thrilled that someone is already thinking of utilizing the
> recent library split-out!  The API is flexible, so please give us tons
> of feedback on any recommendations during your experience using it.

 I definitely will. In fact, I have a question about output already - I was 
messing around with merging just using gerbv as a filter and ran into what 
_might_ be an error: the output includes a starting coordinate of X0Y0 at
the very start. Here's an example:

G04 --Start main section--*
G01X00000Y00000D02*
G54D11*
G01X00394Y02344D02*

 This actually broke the sizing on my web-parser as the board itself does not 
start there, but rather at the coordinate that comes right after the tool 
prepare (G54). So, I am wondering why the extra is there - I don't find this 
in any other output that I have tested the web parser against so far, so I am 
thinking that it is possibly a technically correct thing that nobody uses .. 
that might be omitted?

> And, please let us know if you need more functionality with it.  If
> there's a feature you need that would be even slightly useful to other
> projects, we'll gladly look into it.  For example, you mentioned a

 Much obliged - once I start actually dealing with the library I'll have 
better feedback on this. I have a lot of thoughts about this but 
unfortunately not quite as much time to persue them quite yet, but soon ..

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