<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi John,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 May 2022, at 17:35, jslee via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class="">DRU: contains design rules. PCB fabs like Seeed, OSHPark, etc often provide this for Eagle users, but they're also easy to create from a fab's documentation. You load it and run DRC and it tells you if you've violated that particular fab's rules.<br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">In KiCad you can import all settings from another board, see screenshot. Not from a separate DRU file though, as far as I can tell.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="3FCDF953-2B75-4A74-B863-94DFB20AB5A8" src="cid:1DF44A0C-06D3-43BB-AEF6-91B716B2C719@altus-escon.com" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">CAM: contains (a) a list of output files for a CAM process, and (b) mappings of design layers those output files, possibly with some settings like "create a negative image". Fabs often provide this for Eagle users, and of course they can be created easily enough. I tend to end up customizing CAM files to add layers into the silkscreen outputs, but other than that I use it as-is.</div><div class=""></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe KiCad remembers the last used settings, but indeed, this is a shortcoming. (b) is missing completely.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I see some pcb mfgrs now accepting the KiCad pcb design file itself. Saves you the whole gerber setup, although you never know what you’re going to get.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ben</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>