inteliko Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 How do I turn the PCB design on this PDF into a Gerber file to send to batch pcb?CMU800MIDIKitPCB2_20071230.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Short answer: Not at all.Long answer: By rebuilding the pcb in eagle/kicad/... and then generating the gerbers. You could just home-etch that thing. It's big, single-sided, ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inteliko Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Jeez that was quick, any suggestions of freeware that can do the task? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 eagle/kicad/... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inteliko Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 I found a DL link for eagle light, that ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 hmm. The download is only about 10MB. Why don't you just try? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimo Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 yes do it Eagle is an amazing program (cimo is politically correct ;) ) but you may want to give a try to kicad as well cause it doesn t have the size limitation that Eagle has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 cimo is right. Try both. Use the one you like better. If you (dis-)like them about equally use kicad cause it's free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inteliko Posted August 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 Isnt kicad Linux only, regardless I found the mystery .PCB file, I just need to know what next??. and am willing to take a flame for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimo Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 .Isnt kicad Linux onlynope you can get an instaler for windows as well and osx support will come soon, atm you need to compile yourself if you have a Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00dawg Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 If you are using batchpcb.com, they also have a how-to for generating the proper files to suite their needs. Included are some additional scripts (for generating things like the silscreens) and such. It was pretty easy to do, but took a while to get everything perfect. So be ready for learning patience :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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