Re: gEDA-user: gerbv and eagle - crashed - retested again

[Holger Waechtler <holger-at-NOSPAMconvergence_dot_de>]

Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Stefan Petersen wrote:
> 
>> Hello Alvin!
>>
>> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Alvin Oga wrote:
>>
>>
>>> i've regenerated and confirmed that gerbv-0.13 segfaults on 
>>> "gerberauto" files
>>> output from eagle
>>>     # gerbv .../LedAssy-2.1/crashbot.gbr
>>>     Segmentation fault
>>>
>>> gerbv-0.14 shows the following error message which is probably right
>>>     # gerbv-0.14  .../LedAssy-2.1/crashbot.gbr
>>>
>>> |    /tmp/gerb/LedAssy-2.1/crashbot.gbr: Parse error:
>>> |    * Missing format
>>> |    * Missing apertures/drill sizes
>>> |
>>> |    You probably tried to read an RS-274D file, which gerbv doesn't 
>>> support
>>>
>>> good .. looks like the segfult is fixed in gerbv-0.14 for 
>>> "gerberauto" outputs
>>> from eagle  ...
>>
>>
>>
>> I get very worried when it segfaults, but that seems to be that old
>> problem. Great to hear that it seems fixed and sorry for the problems
>> caused by 0.13!
>>
>>
>>
>>>     but, it still errors out with links to the real drill files
>>>     ( ln -s led-assy.dri crashbot.dri
>>>     ( ln -s led-assy.drl crashbot.drl
>>>     ( ln -s led-assy.dri crashbot.dri
>>
>>
>>
>> So the drillfiles causes segfault? Or are they just "missdrawn"? You have
>> used the scripts that Holger pointed out, since gerbv doesn't like Eagle
>> default drill files?
> 
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> when Eagle was used with a metric grid I had to slightly modify 
> eagle2exc.pl:
> 
> I added
> 
>     print OUTFILE "INCH,LZ\n";
> 
> right after
> 
>     print OUTFILE "M48\n";
> 
> and replaced
> 
>     while (<INFILE>)
>     {
>         print OUTFILE $_;
>     }
> 
> by
> 
>     while (<INFILE>)
>     {
>         if (/^X(\d+)Y(\d+)$/) {
>             printf OUTFILE "X%.03fY%.03f\n",$1/1000,$2/1000;
>         } else {
>             print OUTFILE $_;
>         }
>     }
> 
> to ensure correct fractional numbers.
> 
> Some Windows Viewers don't use inch by default and I had problems with 
> the files generated by the original version when Eagle wrote files in 
> the metric setting.

Errmmm, sorry -- if I remember correctly it was not a metric grid but an 
inch grid. I believe the original script worked on mil grids. I'm not 
sure right now if drill coordinates need to get scaled for mm grids.

Holger