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>Bob:
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>That is ∗exactly∗ what I want. If it has problems eating
>KiCAD output, I'll figure it out and send the patches back
>to the author.
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http://www.superference.com/images/PCB/PCBpanel2.jpg Takes a little work to get everything installed and set up, but once
you do it's fairly easy to use. My boards are often irregular shaped
and need manual placement, but I assume the auto works fine too if you
mainly use rectangular boards. Board updates then run gerbmerge then
pull it into gcprevue ends up being fairly painless after you get the
gerbmerge config file set up for the boards you want..
While there's probably a ton of commands, I'd imagine just like HPGL
most packages really only use a few for output to keep things simple, so
likely you'll have it working without too much problem. The secondary
installs and config file setup for gerbmerge are likley to take more
time, it's still kind of an in-development level tool. Seems to work
very well once it's running though.
Alan