Mail Archives: geda-user/2013/10/27/14:34:18
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 23:51 -0600, jbump AT frii DOT com wrote:
> I need to mill out a hole inside a board, as well as the standard board
> outline. I can put my cutting-inside outline on an arbitrary layer with
> nothing else there and get a perfectly nice gerber, but it also contains
> all the drill holes. Is there a good way to get pcb to produce two
> separate outline files, that don't have anything else in them? (The
> obvious workaround, delete the unwanted bits in gerbv, is for some reason
> not working: I can't get it to select objects in order to delete them. I
> can do that in circuitcam, but as I only have access to that at work it's a
> poor workaround.)
>
> Thanks for any advice.
Usually the fabs are happy with this information all on the "outline"
layer. No reason the outline can't have multiple contours.
Alternatively, PCB also understands the layer name "route" as special.
(Not that I approve of magic special names, but "outline" and "route"
ARE special as far as PCB is concerned).
Use one of the above layer names, and you should not get the pin/via
pads and drills in the gerber output.
Peter
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Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk>
Clifton Electronics
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Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk>
Clifton Electronics
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