Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/02/02/23:39:44
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:51:30AM +0000, Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote:
> Hello fellow free EDA users,
>
> I am having some trouble getting gerbv to view some gerbers which seem
> to have been generated from PADS some time in 2009. The gerbers in
> question are contained in this little tarball:
>
> http://downloads.openmoko.org/developer/schematics/GTA02/gta02_outline_footprints_netlist.tar.bz2
>
> The only version of gerbv which I was able to install on my Slackware
> system so far is gerbv-2.6.0. I tried to install 2.6.1, but the tarball
> came without the usual maintainer-generated files like configure, so I
> had to run autogen.sh myself. The build then failed because some
> NLS/i18n-related tool was missing, and passing --disable-nls to
> configure didn't help either.
>
> So I got gerbv-2.6.0 installed, and it seems to work in general: I can
> successfully view any of the gerbers for my own pcb-made boards, for
> example. But when I try to open any of Openmoko's *.pho gerbers from
> the tarball cited above, gerbv doesn't seem to report any errors, but
> the display window remains all black, as if each opened gerber were
> empty.
I opened the Gerbers with 2.6.1, and I do see the layout.
However, I had to zoom out / pan quite a lot to see anything. Originally
I get positioned at the origin, whereas the contents of the Gerbers are
start at about 60-70cm (~25 inches) up.
Try zooming out to see if your version actually loads the files correctly.
Regards,
Laszlo
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