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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Standalone DRC for Gerber files
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Peter Stuge <peter AT stuge DOT se> wrote:
> Colin D Bennett wrote:
>> Ideally.... it would be REALLY awesome if there were a way to import
>> Gerbers into pcb
>
> Do gerbers have traces and widths, or only outlines?

Traces and widths, the same as PCB.

There's a fairly straight forward mapping between PCB primitives and
Gerber primitives, it's pretty much one to one.

A good place to start on a Gerber importer would be the Gerber parsing
code in gEDA Gerbv

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Stephen Ecob
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