bPlace wrong position

Question

Hi everybody,

the first image is my pcb on eagle - board layout -, but when i generate the Gerbel file, the bPlace was in a wrong position - second image.

I use this guide to add the "Silk Screen SOL": https://goo.gl/ujCzQc - third image - .

Someone can help me?

rachaelp · Accepted Answer

If you take the same design and export if using the old 8.5.2 CAM processor is your bPlace then in the correct location? I.e. is this specific to the new 8.6.0 CAM processor?

shabaz · Answer

Hi Dave, Also, what gerber file viewer are you using, is this output from EAGLE, or third party software? If third party, it could be worth trying some additional software, (e.g. 'gerbv' but there are other options too) just in case the particular software you're using didn't import that layer correctly. Some software tries to 'guess' some things, and sometimes one layer is shifted or scaled wrong.

dave.calaway · Answer

rachaelp Works on the 8.5.2! @Autodesk fail this time.

Jorge_Garcia · Answer

Hi Dave,

I hope your doing well. The main issue here appears to be that you have mixed a legacy CAM job with the new Gerber file format. The offsets are calculated differently in each system so you shouldn't mix them. The recommended solution is to convert all of your legacy sections to the new format and export the gerbers then. You can do this easily by right clicking the word Legacy and you'll see an option to convert all of the sections to GerberX2.

Alternatively, you can have everything using the legacy system. That will also work, the key here is that you don't want to mix them.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Autodesk Support

rachaelp · Answer

dave.calaway wrote:

Works on the 5.3.2!

Right ok, it would be interesting to know if it works on 8.5.2 though to be 100% sure it's an issue specific to the new CAM processor rather than in any other change between 5.3.2 and 8.6.0.

5.3.2 is very old and there are no doubt lots of changes went in between that and the latest version, a good number of them by CADSoft rather than Autodesk.

Best Regards,

Rachael

rachaelp · Answer

dave.calaway wrote:

Works on the 8.5.2!

Right, I see it was a typo which you've now updated

I'm sure somebody from Autodesk will see this and will take a look at what's going on. They are very responsive with fixing bugs these days so I would expect they will be all over this.

Best Regards,

Rachael