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LukeW:
Is there any tool or process you would recommend that can take a standard stack of Gerber files (usually 2-layer, although the potential capability to support 4-layer would be nice) and bring them all together into one set of Gerber files on a combined single panel for fabrication, for fab houses where this is required or economically attractive.

I want to do this in a way that isn't labor intensive, doesn't corrupt or change the existing Gerber files, and takes Gerber files as its input, meaning it is independent of whatever EDA/CAD software is used by different people - Altium, Eagle, KiCad, whatever - as long as they're just able to generate and provide standard Gerbers from their software.

free_electron:
Frontline's Genesis , ucamco's ucam or lavenir.
But not free and very expensive.
That is what the industry uses to panelise

kizzap:
The only software I have used that I was able to do what you are after is some software called CAM350. It imports all the gerbers from whatever software you produced your PCBs in, and allows you to do whatever you need to do with panelizing, including your borders, copper theifing, panel fiducials, dril checks, etc. It will also do an automatic step and repeat of your PCB design for you.

cons: not cheap at $500 for the basic version of the software.

DerekG:

--- Quote from: free_electron on April 10, 2014, 02:41:13 am ---Frontline's Genesis , ucamco's ucam or lavenir.
But not free and very expensive.
That is what the industry uses to panelise

--- End quote ---

Yep. You just plug in the dimensions of the panel you wish to use & Genesis will pretty much do the rest for you to minimise any wasted panel space.

Hideki:
One free solution is GerbMerge, written in Python and a royal pain in the ass to use... but hey... that's the price you have to pay for something that's free :)

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