What's wrong with this drill file? - RimuPCB

Archive BatchPCB
1

Grrrrrrr,

What’s wrong with this drill file? FreeDFM found no errors and processed it perfectly.

M72
M48
T01C0.0394
T02C0.0315
T03C0.0500
%
T01
X9000Y19000
X4000Y1000
X8000
X12000
X11000Y19000
X5000
T02
X11000
T03
X11680Y15500
X10120
X8560
X7000
X5440
X14800
X13240
X3880
M30

I’d really like to have holes in my board. :slight_smile:

2

Greetings (No First Name Supplied),

jwc1:
What’s wrong with this drill file? FreeDFM found no errors and processed it perfectly.

There may be nothing "wrong" with the drill file, you haven't

told us what you are trying to do and why you think it’s

broken.

Here’s a fragment of one that does work:

%
M48
M72
T01C0.0240
T02C0.0320
T03C0.0400
T04C0.0500
T05C0.1300
%
T01
X2514Y13161
X10514Y16161
X7514Y19161
....
T02
X5514Y9161
X5514Y10161
X5514Y11161
....
T05
X56514Y2661
X50514Y2661
....
M30

Comparing it with yours I noticed that you do not have

an X and a Y co-ord for each drill hit.

What tool created your file?

Comments Welcome!

3

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the reply. The software is RimuPCB.

The BatchPCB bot doesn’t show holes, so this may be a non-issue.

It looks like it’s not repeating the Y coordinates after they’ve been stated once. All of the holes in this board are in three different “rows”. For example, the T03 drill is all in Y15500.

I will edit and reupload to see it that helps.

Actually, no edit is required. Here’s something from RimuPCB’s help file:

Modal Data
This option, when enabled, eliminates unnecessary repeating of X or Y co-ordinates from the file when moving horizontally or vertically and reduces the size of the file somewhat. This option should normally be enabled.

It appears that BatchPCB doesn’t like that option being enabled while Advanced Circuits doesn’t mind.

Thanks for the pointer!

Odd. ViewMate and GC Prevue show the holes as being about 10X the size of the PCB no matter what selections I choose.

Jason