PC boards and software

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Wed Apr 14 20:38:40 2004

>>> directly from your emailed Eagle .SCH and .BRD files.
>> [W]hat are these .SCH and .BRD files? Is there any documentation on
>> the format? I don't mind doing board layout and such myself, but I
>> have to know what I need to generate.
> I doubt the Eagle file formats are documented. But I assume Gerber
> files are, and those are the industry-standard format for board
> designs.

Everything I've found seems to point me to Gerber, yes. But I've yet
to find Gerber documentation anywhere (at least anything detailed
enough to be able to write code to). Surely such a thing must exist
somewhere, but I've had no luck finding it.

> Are you thinking about creating an open source PCB CAD tool?

It's one of the options. I'm interested in this because there's a
circuit I'd like to transfer from the wishboard it's on now to a real
pcb, but that means I need the pcb.

I suspect that there are a lot of things I don't know because I've
never done anything of the sort before that everyone in the industry
takes for granted because it's always been done that way.

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