I have Kicad and Eagle for schematic and PCB designs and a number of other programs for SPICE simulations. A friend developed a PCB in Sprint 6 that I would like to edit and make changes to the silk screening prior to ordering PCBs. I am able to open the files automatically in Gerbview, however the drilling page gives errors as well as other pages and editing the silk screen just seems to not be working. It can be user error or it can be a conflict. I am trying to open the files in Eagle gives me an error as well - first error is on the a fill command whatever that means but I believe it isn't THAT big of an issue because it still moves forward. After the file is scanned and I try to import it says coordinates are out of range and lists what the max is and what this supposedly is...the PCB is 100mmx150mm and the max is 78in so it isn't even close. The gentleman who helped with the PCB had the same issue. I also tried using easyeda.com since you can do schematics, make PCBs, spice the circuit and order PCBs all in one place. It allows imports from Kicad, Eagle, ANSI files, etc however none of these will import.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi JaredC79,
You may need to edit the gerber files in Sprint Lay out, this I think is the easiest way. I also use Sprint Lay out and when I see errors in fhe Gerbviewer I re-open fhe files in Sprint to correct the errors. Software compatibility is always an issue when working with files like this.
Hope it helps!
Regards!
You may need to edit the gerber files in Sprint Lay out, this I think is the easiest way. I also use Sprint Lay out and when I see errors in fhe Gerbviewer I re-open fhe files in Sprint to correct the errors. Software compatibility is always an issue when working with files like this.
Hope it helps!
Regards!
Gerber files can only be edited in a front end system usually such as Cam350, most CAD packages cannot open Gerber files.
I have Gerber files produced by Autotrax Eda, Diptrace is unable to read them correctly but GerView can, so after re-export all files in RX274X format, Diptrace can now import correctly all gerber files now created by GerView. So it appears that original files created by Autotrax, or Sprint may not be in same RC274X format as there are newer and older version.
There are two main formats for Gerber data RS-274d and RS-274x. Both quite outdated these days but still widely in use, a preferred format is ODB++.
RS-274d had an aperture table as well as the positional information, RS-274x embedded the aperture information within the Gerber file also adding a header with data format, leading or trailing suppression etc.
Here is the current spec data for Gerber...
https://www.ucamco.com/files/downloads/file/81/the_gerber_file_format_specification.pdf
Some software can only handle Gerber data in imperial format and at a specific number of decimal places.
Finally editing Gerber data should always be a LAST RESORT, far better to ammend the source file and re-do the Gerber data.
RS-274d had an aperture table as well as the positional information, RS-274x embedded the aperture information within the Gerber file also adding a header with data format, leading or trailing suppression etc.
Here is the current spec data for Gerber...
https://www.ucamco.com/files/downloads/file/81/the_gerber_file_format_specification.pdf
Some software can only handle Gerber data in imperial format and at a specific number of decimal places.
Finally editing Gerber data should always be a LAST RESORT, far better to ammend the source file and re-do the Gerber data.
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