Kevin, I am not a PCB designer either, but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night. I have no doubt that the files you tried to use were the originals from when the B-24 was designed in the early 90s. To accurately import, you would need an inkpot and goose feather quill pen. This last year, Mr. Graham Naisbitt, Gen3 Systems Ltd in the UK, desired to have the outside dimensions of the contact finger area reduced to fit the only known edge card connector to fit the board. He had the Gerber files for the board re-done and so the Gerber files may be more amenable to modern software import. I can send them to you if you like and see if that works. I know that GC-Preview is able to read the files OK. This would be the IPC-B-24 Rev B board. I have copied John Perry on this response and John, being a Grand Moff in the Cleaning and Coating Empire, may be able to get the updated version out and can the older versions. As with most of the IPC test boards, it is lacking in a formal drawing, at least the kind that we are used to. I have tried to get my boss to spring for our drafting department to make one, but she is one of those responsible/ethical managers and budgets are pretty darn tight right now. Perhaps next year. Doug Pauls "Glidden, Kevin" <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> 02/22/2010 10:23 AM Please respond to TechNet E-Mail Forum <[log in to unmask]>; Please respond to "Glidden, Kevin" <[log in to unmask]> To [log in to unmask] cc Subject [TN] Reading IPC-B-24 data issues Good Morning, I will preface this with a statement that I am not a PCB designer, and I do not run the PCB design software we use. That being said, I am attempting to have IPC-B-24 PCBs made by our PCB vendor instead of buying them off-the-shelf. I purchased the IPC-A-24G artwork direct from IPC, and it came on a disc. Two PCB houses and the stencil house have all responded it is unreadable. The disc has ZIP file with the following: IPC-A-24G Master Drawing (PDF). This indicates original design was done by Magnavox in 1990. Dcb24l01 Dcb24lst cd2401.gbr dc24lst.gbr Aperture.txt My PCB people are telling me the files won't even auto-import (automatic format detection) into CAM software. Has anyone else run into this issue and know a solution? Thanks, Kevin Glidden ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------