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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] bug? in Gerber Export in PCB
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:03:25 +0200
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DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
>> Specifically, there are three issues. The first is simply figuring
>> out how to specify the base directory for the gerber files.
> 
> Specify that path as part of gerbfile
> 
>> This bit of the GUI really needs a standard Folder Chooser.
> 
> If you can come up with a gui-independent folder chooser, sure.  It
> has to work under gtk, lesstif, windows, batch, and command line.

Maybe I am a bit naive. But how is this fundamentally different to the way 
pcb chooses files on other occasions? E.g. the "Load Layout file" 
dialogue.


>> The second issue is the weirdness of the the output file names.
> 
> Since we
> have no concept of "group names" we assign "group%n" to internal
> layers, like we assign "top" and "bottom" to those, despite what you
> name the drawing layers.

There s the option "first" though. It makes pcb picks the name of the 
first layer of a group. This tends to work out nicely for my layer stacks.


>> The third issue is more serious and irritating. If I draw some stuff on
>> the "Spare" layer and then generate the gerbers, the spare layer
> (...) 
>  We make an exception for the "outline" layer but
> that's a hack.

Could we tag a layer with an attribute as "non-copper"?

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