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ThisIsNotRocketScience / GerberTools

Tools to load/edit/create/panelizer sets of gerber files
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Panelizer; Missing drill holes, not supporting NPTH and PTH? #49

Open DIYglenn opened 6 years ago

DIYglenn commented 6 years ago

Hi! About to order my first batch of panelized PCB's, and thought I'd give this a shot.

I've exported my gerbers from KiCAD, where I got a NPTH.drl and PTH.drl file. Is it possible to use these with Panelizer? It seems like it has only used the NPTH file, but as PTH...

DIYglenn commented 6 years ago

I tried again with combining them as one file, but now the drill holes are all gathered in a corner. Not sure what's doing this. panelizer

Btw, isn't GKO and GML the same file...?

StijnKuipers commented 6 years ago

The merger merges files based on extention - drl and drl would become one. Not sure if it currently looks far 1 main drillfile to merge the mousebites

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Hi! About to order my first batch of panelized PCB's, and thought I'd give this a shot.

I've exported my gerbers from KiCAD, where I got a NPTH.drl and PTH.drl file. Is it possible to use these with Panelizer? It seems like it has only used the NPTH file, but as PTH...

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DIYglenn commented 6 years ago

Could KiCAD be the issue? I can’t seem to get this design working in panelizer. When using two files, the NPTH would be treated as PTH, but at least drilled in the right place.

DIYglenn commented 6 years ago

I stopped using my export and used the one unedited KiCad project from this GitHub repository: AmsToMqttBridge

That way I can be sure that my changes to the project isn't interfering. This original project only has one drl file. (There are two holes for a network plug, NPTH/PTH doesn't really matter)

I changed "gm1" to "gml", that's all.

I then:

Exported, and this is the result: untitled_combined_top

untitled_combined_bottom

No holes...

When I zip and test in JLCPCB preview, the preview doesn't show up. Looks like it doesn't understand the PCB size...

jlcpcb

DIYglenn commented 6 years ago

I tried with this guide.

There's a tip for KiCad:

About the KiCad origin issue, you might want to export your Gerbers (and drill file) with the "Use auxiliary axis as origin" option. In KiCad you can place that auxiliary origin with one of the buttons in the toolbar.

This did work, I placed a "drill and place offset" at the top left corner, and used auxiliary axis as origin on both. I'm still new to this, so I'm not exactly sure what this means/why this helps.

However it DID help. I think I got all the drill holes except four oval shaped ones for the microUSB port. Anyone that can make sense of that?

Original: panelizer_01

Exported from Panelizer: panelizer_02

CRImier commented 5 years ago

It certainly does support plated and non-plated holes, you just have to export them as .drl and .txt (don't know which is which), there's probably an option to do that in your ECAD software. With KiCad, I could export both kinds of holes IIRC (I certainly could export plated holes), just that without the aux. axis thing, it'd place my board far outside of the GP's 10x10cm area... not that it doesn't do that already, but it was more severe =D Since otherwise you get coordinates relative to the KiCad's work area top left corner (one of these corners, at least), and the work area is an A4 sheet of paper, so you might have to enter something like -100 and -150 in the "X" and "Y" boxes until you actually see your board on GP's work area.