Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/07/24/21:23:08
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 07:42:34PM -0500, John Griessen wrote:
> I just heard that the smoothieboard developer is going to figure how to
> connect a smoothieboard to drive a pick and place circuit assembly bot.
>
> He's going to use Eagle because it is easy compared to working with gerber
> data.
>
> So, what are the arguments for working with PCB again?
Free open source software!
Don't know about Eagles file format, but the ASCII format of PCB is
something I really like.
I can place it into subversion and use all my talent with vi and
scripts onto it.
By the way - PCB's placement output (bom export) is also easy to parse:
[267]devel> less pcb.xy
# PcbXY Version 1.0
# Date: Fri Jul 25 01:16:12 2014 UTC
# Author: Bernd Walter
# Title: PCB - PCB X-Y
# RefDes, Description, Value, X, Y, rotation, top/bottom
# X,Y in mil. rotation in degrees.
# --------------------------------------------
R50,"220R","4x0603",926.50,985.00,0,top
D3,"EL19-237","4-Pin SMD LED",815.00,959.50,270,top
D7,"SSL13L","Sub-SMA",725.00,2865.00,90,top
D8,"SSL13L","Sub-SMA",725.00,2615.00,90,top
C10,"470pF","0402",532.62,1565.44,0,top
IC18,"34063","SMD 8",586.73,1387.61,270,top
...
> Postscript output,
>
> NC drill file,
>
> centroids? I've been so busy on non electronics work for two years, I
> forgot...
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