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Offline alamwteTopic starter

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gerbv to altium PCB
« on: May 08, 2021, 09:10:11 am »
Hi,
I have a file that it will open in gerbv software. I want change it to PCB
I don't know how to build its drill file?
Would you help me?
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Offline Gerhard_dk4xp

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Re: gerbv to altium PCB
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2021, 10:56:53 am »
That you have Gerber files that open nicely in Gerbv does not mean that
AD21 can import that. :-(  I had such a case last week and opened a discussion
about that.
https://forum.live.altium.com/#posts/246496    >

Gerber files usually have no drill information, although my example shows at
least some bounding box. Relevant key words are drill file, Excellon etc.
In AD the generation of drill files is a work item at the same level like
"Generate Gerber" under "file/fabrication outputs".
The file extension is .txt, wich is not exactly a great help.

It seems that importing DXF creates less errors than Gerber.
I worked for me with some manual post processing.

regards, Gerhard

 


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