Cheap PCBs

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Thu Nov 21 14:42:01 2002

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Jim Kearney wrote:

> >From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
> > Gerber format is not all that complicated. It seems that someone
>
> No, it's not. It doesn't seem like there's an off-the-shelf way to go from
> raster (PDF or TIFF) to vector (Gerber), though, or at least nothing jumps
> out from Google. In principle it would be easy to load a raster and write
> it out as a set of lines in Gerber format.

A few years ago, I worked with a tools that took rasterized image files
and converted them to vector based IGES files. It came on a single
1.44MB floppy and ran on a PC under Windows. It worked rather well, but
but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the product. I seem
to recall that it was fairly expensive...

Ah-ha! http://www.trixsystems.com/whatsbestforrastertovector.html

-brian.
Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 14:42:01 GMT

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