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Hi Mike,
I may try that. It’s probably easier than trying to figure out the 1,000+1 option settings in Altium or recompiling the GerbEx program.
Cheers,
Mark
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Subject: RE: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] RE: Isolation mill software.
I have never worked with Altium, and have not even taken a close look at Gerber files. Are the complex commands essentially combinations of simpler ones? If they don't require recalculation, then an awk script should be able to look for every occurrence of the complex command and replace it with several lines of simpler instructions to accomplish the same thing. If recalculations are required (for instance, a single command to produce an arc may need to be replaced by twenty straight line segments with carefully calculated endpoints for each one) then you might do better with a perl or python script to post-process the Gerber files from Altium so that GerbEx can handle them.
Mike
Unfortunately in my case won’t accept the Gerber files produced by the Altium PCB editor.
GerbEx only handles some basic Gerber commands and aborts if it sees anything else and I can’t find a way of telling Altium to produce simple Gerber files.
Unfortunately support and documentation for GerbEx appears to be non-existent. Anyone had any luck with this?