Never use your ECAD tool to check your Gerber output. I've seen the
occasional error in Gerber outputs and the cause has sometimes an error in
the ECAD output and sometimes in the Gerber import.
I'm currently looking at changing to viewmate, dfmnow or gerbv.
For many years, since 1996 I suspect, I've used GC Prevue but I have to say
I was a little disappointed in the manner they've started charging for the
product from the start of the year, seemingly out of the blue with no prior
warning. They have user's email addresses but didn't send any news out
ahead of time, and to begin with they were still advertising the free
version on the website but only had the purchase buttons. The last version
I downloaded in December last year has stopped working at the start of this
year with no error message. I've been told that it's down to a recent
Windows security update.
I've gone back to using a slightly older version of gcprevue for now.
Regards,
James

On Jan 10, 2018 7:52 PM, "Roger Mack" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> the new "was free" regular GC Prevue is now $50. I just had to upgrade in
> December (version 25.3.6). Same as before , but without the ad every time
> you opened it. Not a big charge for what we get out of it.
>
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> From:   Douglas Pauls <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:   2018-01-10 01:43 PM
> Subject:        Re: [TN] got Free gerber viewers?
> Sent by:        TechNet <[log in to unmask]>
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> Peter is that for the GC Prevue or the GC Prevue Plus?
>
>
> Doug Pauls
> Principal Materials and Process Engineer
> Rockwell Collins
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Peter Wong <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Hi Doug,
> >
> >
> >
> > We?ve been using GC Preview forever but we just found out that now they
> > are charging $50.00 / user /year for it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* Douglas Pauls [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 10, 2018 10:57 AM
> > *To:* TechNet E-Mail Forum; Peter Wong
> > *Subject:* Re: [TN] got Free gerber viewers?
> >
> >
> >
> > GC Preview from Graphicode
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Doug Pauls
> >
> > Principal Materials and Process Engineer
> >
> > Rockwell Collins
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Peter Wong <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm looking for recommendations for free gerber viewers.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Peter
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