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gerbv installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Aug 7 21:03:42 2006
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:03:29 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed gerbv on Athena for Sun and Linux. gerbv is a viewer
for Gerber RS-274X files. This is an industry standard format used for
designing circuit boards. gerbv also supports drill files. The formats
supported are known under names as NC-drill or Excellon. gerbv can
load multiple overlays from separate Gerber files, and can output the
images it displays in png format.
The easiest way to use it is to cd to a directory containing one or more
Gerber files (.grb is the most common extension although there are several
others), and to launch it like this:
add gerbv
gerbv *.grb
The main documentation source is the man page for gerbv (add gerbv; man gerbv).
There are samples in the example directory of the gerbv_v1.0.2 locker.
Alex
