I am trying to get a publicly-available PCB design produced. I’m not sure what program was used to produce them, but I have the Gerbers, and the drill file. The drill file was missing the drill sizes, so I added them (carefully :-)), and the design looks OK (and is sized OK) in Viewmate and passes FreeDFM.
When I submit it to BatchPCB, the layers aren’t recognised, so I have to tell the zip file preprocessor which is which [there are the standard 7 files (including the drill file)]. After I do this, the preprocessor reports the X/Y max/min dimensions exactly 10 times too small.
What might be wrong & how do I fix it?
Thanks!
anodyne:
I am trying to get a publicly-available PCB design produced. I’m not sure what program was used to produce them, but I have the Gerbers, and the drill file. The drill file was missing the drill sizes, so I added them (carefully :-)), and the design looks OK (and is sized OK) in Viewmate and passes FreeDFM.
When I submit it to BatchPCB, the layers aren’t recognised, so I have to tell the zip file preprocessor which is which [there are the standard 7 files (including the drill file)]. After I do this, the preprocessor reports the X/Y max/min dimensions exactly 10 times too small.
What might be wrong & how do I fix it?
Thanks!
Your question is pretty simple. The decimal is the key here. You will need to look at the gerbers and see how many number proceed the decimal, and how many follow it. That will be input into the BatchPCB bot to solve your problem.
When you are inputing the information, I vaguely (it’s been a while) remember the bot asking the number of leading and trailing zeros (leading and trailing the decimal).
This should solve the problem…if it doesn’t you will need to wait for a reply from the Batch PCB people.
JL