Altium .drl file

[jerry507]

I'm using Altium 10 and I've always been using the ASCII drill file it generates. I decided to look at the binary drill file (.drl) just for fun and I was surprised there was nothing in it. The txt file opens in camtastic and shows all my pretty drills, but nothing in the drl file.

Any idea what is going on? There doesn't seem to be any option I've missed to generate that...

[gulftown17]

I dont know if this is still revelant, but I have exactly the same problem. Have you figured it out? I know that Altium produces GD1 and GG1 as drill drawing and drill guide, which in theory should be enough for PCB fabrication house to manufacture the board, but I would rather have a nice .DRL file like other programs make. I can see the drl file when I open up the excellon .txt document, but for example it cant be read using KiCad.

[T3sl4co1l]

Last one I generated has gibberish in it something like...

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T€T€#
v  2  s k 
  €#v  2  s k    €#v  2  s k   €#v  2  s k   €#v  2  s k
   €€# 
€7  
8  
€7  
8  
€7  
8  €7  8 

(which is thoroughly botched by the forum, but you get the idea).

Tim