Cheap PCBs

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Thu Nov 21 15:33:00 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.
>
> Actually I have a vague recollection that one of the board houses charged
> extra for "very large Gerber files caused by rasterized plots".
>
>
>

Plus its pretty hard to extract the drill info from a 'vectorized' raster
plot...


Peter Wallace
Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 15:33:00 GMT