Mail Archives: geda-user/2019/01/29/21:59:33
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a pc board I designed in PCB 4.1.3 and I am trying to export a PNG file
> with the "top silk", "pins/pads" and "outline" layers only. I turned off all
> layers but these and what I see on the screen is what I want the exported PNG
> file to look like.
FYI, pcb-rnd has a relative new CAM export support, which introduces an
optional syntax common to all exporters. With this optional CAM syntax
you can get any exporter to export one or more specific layers (into one
or more files), by layer name or layer type.
It works on all exporters, so you don't need to figure an export code
specific solution each time you want something "unusual" or just want the
same effect with a different exporter.
In your case, this means you can simply list the few layers you want, give
it the file name, and it will do exactly what you want, either from the
command line or the gui, without having to play around with layer
visibility.
So another solution is simply loading the same files in pcb-rnd and using
a cleaner export setup with the CAM syntax.
More info:
http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/user/06_feature/cam/
http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=cam
(Side note: you can also set up an "export job" this way in your
configuration, per system, per user or per project: a named export setup
that uses one or more exporters to produce different files in different
formats from different layers. We even have transformations, so you can
get objects on any layer bloated up or shrunk by a specific amount if your
process needs that - later on this will have mirror and rotate too.)
HTH,
Igor2
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