Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/27/16:04:14
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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