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gerbv, the free and opensrc gerber viewer

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Not all of you may know this, but I found this free open source gerber

viewer that seems to work nice.

http://gerbv.gpleda.org/index.html

 

From the overview:

-Gerbv is a viewer for Gerber RS-274X files, Excellon drill files, and CSV

pick-and-place files.

-Gerbv is a native Linux application, and it runs on many common unix

platforms.

-Gerbv is free/ open-source software.

-You may download the source code from this page.

-The core functionality of gerbv is located in a separate library

(libgerbv), allowing developers to include Gerber

parsing/editing/exporting/rendering into other programs. Documentation for

libgerbv is here.

-Gerbv is one of the utilities affiliated with the gEDA project, an umbrella

organization dedicated to producing free software tools for electronic

design.

-The latest official gerbv release is version 2.3.0, released on 2009-07-11.

 

 

 

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  • Hi Tilmann...

     

         I would be interested to know what bugs and incorrect display you know

    about for ViewMate (and which version of Viewmate).     I have

    definitely seen ViewMate generate some weird displays but these always

    turned out to be due to my incorrect configuration of the settings

    during the gerber file import!

     

    Jim

     

    Tilmann Reh wrote:

    Jim Littlefield schrieb:

     

    Gerbv is good. For those on Windows machines there is also a free viewer

    from http://www.pentalogix.com/ where they also sell fancier versions

    for $.

     

    Pentalogix ViewMate is known for several bugs and incorrect display

    under some circumstances.

     

    I prefer GCprevue (also free) which has worked fine so far - including

    with those files that failed with ViewMate.

     

    Tilmann

     

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  • Hi Tilmann...

     

         I would be interested to know what bugs and incorrect display you know

    about for ViewMate (and which version of Viewmate).     I have

    definitely seen ViewMate generate some weird displays but these always

    turned out to be due to my incorrect configuration of the settings

    during the gerber file import!

     

    Jim

     

    Tilmann Reh wrote:

    Jim Littlefield schrieb:

     

    Gerbv is good. For those on Windows machines there is also a free viewer

    from http://www.pentalogix.com/ where they also sell fancier versions

    for $.

     

    Pentalogix ViewMate is known for several bugs and incorrect display

    under some circumstances.

     

    I prefer GCprevue (also free) which has worked fine so far - including

    with those files that failed with ViewMate.

     

    Tilmann

     

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