Phil,
Try this shareware gerber viewer, it will convert gerber files to bitmaps:
www.thenet.co.nz/adrian/gerbermagic
Hope that helps,
Lukas Louw
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil O'Reilly <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] Looking for a silk screen software
Hi Matthew,
what we specifically want is the following:
we receive PCB already designed by various customers. For many of them,
we have the gerber file coming with it. We have to extract from the
gerber file a silk screen that we will import as a bmp (bitmap) file
(size 256x256 pixels) in another software, which software will overlay
the silk screen onto a thermal signature of the board. It is important
that we be able to export the silk screen as a 256x256 bmp file,
otherwise our software will not be able to overlay it on the thermal
signature.
Also, prior to exporting the silk screen in a 256x256 bmp file, we have
to be able to dimension it at the size of our thermal signature image
(smaller then 256x256). The surrounding area of the silk screen will be
all white in order to fill the 256x256 array.
The whole process would be:
Gerber file -------->Software A (the one we are looking for) -------->
Software B (our software)
- Redimension the silk screen -
Overlays silk screen
- Save it as 256x256 bmp image
Given these specifications, would you know a software (software A) that
could satisfy my needs.
Thanks for your advices,
Philippe O'Reilly
Test Engineer
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ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc.
2300 Alfred Nobel, Saint-Laurent, Québec H4S 2A4
Tel: (514)-832-0777 Fax: (514)-832-0778
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Lamkin
> [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:05 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Looking for a silk screen software
>
> Well Phillip, it all depends upon what your looking at the information
> with?
> Before we can advise you upon the software we need to know what it has
> to be compatible with ?
>
> You need to look in the software that you are going to do this
> overlaying with & see what it can import.
> If it can import Gerber then the jobs very easy, but if its DXF then
> you
> need to get something to create them.
>
> You did not say if the PCB is one that was designed by yourselves as
> if
> so it should be a straightforward job
> to create say a Gerber or DXF file (depending upon your PCB CAD
> system)
> that shows the component
> outlines etc. If your doing this for someone else, then you would have
> to get the legend file off of them.
>
> There are Gerber to DXF programs available, CAM350 is one (but it does
> cost a bit, plus some for the DXF interface).
> Alternatively there are some shareware/cheaper packages that can do
> this
> as I'm sure other netters can advise you one.
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Phil O'Reilly [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 4:24 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: [TN] Looking for a silk screen software
> >
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> > my name is Philippe O'Reilly and I work in the field of PCB
> >inspection. We obtain thermal signature of a PCB under electrical
> >stimulation and compare this signature to a reference signature to
> find
> >out if there are some defects on the card. One feature we want to add
> is
> >to overlay a silk screen with the component's contours and their
> names
> >on top of the thermal signature of the PCB. This would help us to
> >quickly find out the exact spots of the defects. At the moment, we
> >manually reconstruct the silk screen from the electronic schematics.
> I
> >am wondering if there exists a software that takes some PCB
> description
> >(Gerber file, ...), processes it to extract the silk screen we want
> >(component's coutours, their names, and their pins).
> >
> >If anyone can give me some advices or is aware of the product I am
> >looking for, I would be more than happy to hear from them.
> >
> >Thanks!!
> >
> >Philippe O'Reilly
> >Test Engineer
> >[log in to unmask]
> >ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc.
> >2300 Alfred Nobel, Saint-Laurent, Québec H4S 2A4
> >Tel: (514)-832-0777 Fax: (514)-832-0778
> >
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