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Cloning a Commodore PET-2001
GK:
Hey, thanks for noticing :)
As a general rule, once the design files are turned out into the public domain, that's the last you hear from any interested correspondent.
I tipped the project over at Hackaday in a fit of shameless self-promotion. Dunno if it will be worthy though.
nad007007:
Hi GK
I have emailed JLCPCB.com about my error "Can not identify the board outline" and they suggest to manually enter the sizes of the boards. Now do you have the dimensions for the 3x boards?
Thanks
Regards
Conrad
Conrad Larsen
Hi Glen, very cool project. I have up loaded all three Gerber files for pet2001 to JLCPCB.com and i get errors "Can not identify the board outline" this puts the drill holes out. Hope you can help with editing the Gerber? Kind Regards Conrad
Glen Kleinschmidt
Hi. I normally use PCBcart or Elecrow for personal projects, but have not used JLCPCB and have never received a similar complaint from another manufacturer, so am not sure what the problem might be. Might be worth contacting JLCPCB technical support for an explanation?
Conrad Larsen
Hi Glen, do you have the three boards dimension please?
Regards Conrad
GK:
In thou:
Motherboard - 10200 x 6800
Video board - 7100 x 4500
PS2/RS232 board - 5950 x 2100
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: nad007007 on December 14, 2018, 04:42:28 am ---Hi GK
I have emailed JLCPCB.com about my error "Can not identify the board outline" and they suggest to manually enter the sizes of the boards. Now do you have the dimensions for the 3x boards?
Thanks
Regards
Conrad
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@GK, in the future, when making gerbers in Protel99SE, to make the PCBs gerbers be auto-recognized by JLPCB.com, you need a trace around your PCB on the 'Keep Out' layer, and, also a copy of those traces on the main 'Mechanical Layer 1'. When generating the gerbers, make sure that the 'Mechanical layer 1' is applied to all greber layers.
With this, many online PCB shops, like some in China who use an all automated online proofing of gerbers before manufacturing like JLPCB will auto-detect the outline of your PCB without issue and auto cut the PCB to that shape.
GK:
In each case I have the board outline defined in the mechanical layer (GM1). From here:
https://support.jlcpcb.com/article/42-how-to-export-altium-pcb-to-gerber-files
--- Quote ---Please make sure you have the clear outline in mechanical layer.
--- End quote ---
:-//
In almost 20 years of Protel now an hundreds of boards manufactured, I've never had a request for anything beyond that. Can you define a board shape in 99SE like you can in AD13? I don't know because I've never had to do it before, and right now I have to go out.
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