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Re: Need a Way to Get Rid of CAM .GPI Files

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On 1/18/2011 1:48 PM, James Morrison wrote:

I know this has come up before but I'm having to delete a lot of these

lately and it is annoying.

 

I have no use for the .gpi files that are generated when creating

gerbers. We need a way to add a tab to the CAM file (last one I would

think) that

can specify a system command to run. Then users could do all kinds of

things for production file generation, including running a command line to

remove those silly .gpi files.

 

I can't count how many thousands of those files I have deleted--that is all

wasted time that I'll never get back. And I don't want to have to go to a

command line to do it manually--the tool should allow a way to clean up

automatically.

 

James.

thought I was the only one...why not just make their generation

optional? or get rid of it? I don't find them useful, does anyone?

 

  • Still undone 02/2018?

     

    How hard is it to suppress the output of file?

  • in reply to hbridge99

      wrote:

     

    Still undone 02/2018?

     

    How hard is it to suppress the output of file?

     

    There is a completely new CAM in 8.6.0, I've just checked explicitly for this file but it is not being generated by the new CAM. There is a .gbrjob file exported now but in the main Gerber section you can uncheck a box to turn that off. The output now simply contains the specified Gerber and Excellon files, nothing else.

     

    Best Regards,


    Rachael

  • in reply to rachaelp

    Oh nice! A reason to upgrade I guess.

    Thanks for the reply.

    It's great to see Autodesk actually fixing some of the dumb stuff in Eagle.

    There's lots of dumb stuff to fix.

  • in reply to hbridge99

      wrote:

     

    Oh nice! A reason to upgrade I guess.

     

    I just read your earlier post from 2015 about creating the directories specified on the fly. The latest CAM processor will also create any directories you specify in the output file paths so you don't have to do it manually.

     

    It also supports Gerber X2 format and deals with polygons properly so rather than creating polygon fills in the gerbers with lines they are using the proper polygon support in the gerbers which makes them a lot smaller and the output speed of the CAM is massively improved.

     

      wrote:

     

    It's great to see Autodesk actually fixing some of the dumb stuff in Eagle.

    There's lots of dumb stuff to fix.

     

    There's a lot that's not dumb too and they've added a massive amount of new features in the last year. It's worth a look if you haven't already. The latest releases have Push&Shove routing, Live DRC (which is actually really useful), SPICE integrated right into EAGLE and not by calling an external SPICE tool. There is also integration with Fusion360 which is great except it's not 100% reliable yet and relies on the managed libraries feature which I do not want to use.

     

    Another thing that's been added recently which has been asked about MANY times is a flip board view, i.e. a proper one which just shows the view from the reverse. The old mirror board ULP actually changed your data so wasn't really useful but now we have a true bottom side view while in the layout.

     

    They've also added what is called a "Manufacturing flyoff" which gives an image of what the board will look like, stats about the board, allows the image, dxf's etc to be exported. It's very useful too.

     

    They still have a lot of work to do to add in all the features and improvements that people have been asking for over the years, it's a long list because of how resource starved they were for a long time. Now Autodesk are investing heavily into EAGLE and it's improving rapidly.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael