Homebrew PCBs

Matt,

"Gerber" was originally a photoplotter format. The photoplotter had a
"wheel" or disk with the shapes around the circumference. Think photo
negatives of geometric shapes. Each wheel had a file with the corresponding
shapes with their position on the wheel.

In the older gerber formats, the wheel file was separate, in the newer
gerber format, it is included.

Of course, today the photoplotter was replacedd by software.

Myc

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Matthew Smith <matt@...> wrote:

>   Quoth Matthew Smith at 2008-05-05 11:42...
> > Quoth Andrew at 2008-05-05 10:59...
> >
> >> How about using vanilla gerbers and use
> >> a gerber veiwer to lay them up.
> >>
> >> Veiwmate by pentalogix is free and will
> >> do that. The free version wont let you
> >> save layups though.
>
> OK - I went into Eagle and selected GERBER as the device. It wants a
> wheel file. What's a wheel file?
>
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