Gerber Converter

[Donizeti Pinto]

Has somebody ever converted Gerber files to use in Mastercam?

[Quickmike]

I have never heard of Gerber file format, but I have some Gerber baby food at home.

[Nominal]

ol school gerber plotter. I don't think there's alot of demand for that.

[Fig sign]

If U R talking about Pcad I think it has an option to make Cnc program for CNC drilling machines .

the code is only bunch of X and Y .

You can trasform it to Ascii and with Mastercam convertor load to Mastercam .

 

Iskander teh if I remember it right after 12 years passed .

 

[ 01-13-2004, 01:04 PM: Message edited by: Iskander teh ]

[Allan Brown]

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I have never heard of Gerber file format, but I have some Gerber baby food at home.

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And let me tell you first hand - that type of Gerber 'conversion' is not pleasant.

[cadcam]

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And let me tell you first hand - that type of Gerber 'conversion' is not pleasant.

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And Dave know's first hand at this time.

[Philcott]

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And Dave know's first hand at this time.

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First hand? or all over his hand???

 

Phil

[Donizeti Pinto]

For everybody to understand my question:

 

A customer of ours receive Gerber (lots of) files from their customer, convert them in a PCGerber software (I had never heard about it before this), convert the geometries creating all points of the geometry (endpoints, circles, etc. - It can´t convert even in DXF), read those points in Mastercam with ASCII convertion, create all lines and circles again (it´s a crazy thing, they make electronic boards) and then machine the part with Wire.

 

It´s a nonsense to do this way, don´t you agree?

[Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.]

In a previous life i worked at CADKEY, we had a Gerber Photoplotter output that would write RS274 files for creating circut boards. But i've never heard of anyone reading them in.

 

Ken

[Donizeti Pinto]

Thanks all.

[Glenn Stephens. from CCCS]

Check out This Page

 

This is the most extensive viewer I've seen, and it can read Gerber files. It can save off as a DXF for most formats as well. You can sign up to try it out online (there is a Java script version) for free.

[Jack Mitchell]

In order to clarify

 

Gerber is or was used extensivly in the graphic arts about 20 or 25 years ago, this preceeded almost all cad systems and graphical fonts as we know them today.

 

It was used mostly for cutting many different font styles on decals for advertising, this was done on a plotter type system with a small blade.

Very slick and fast when considering age and propietary developement.

 

Regards, Jack

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

1/2 of CNC's senior staff used to work there didn't they?

[Rat]

Ah ha!

I thought it was odd when enginnering

saw me going through the motions with MC

They all said yeah thats just like CadKey....

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Several of us here at CNC worked at one or more of the Gerber companies - they're right down the highway from us. Most of us worked on Gerber Systems Technology's SABRE 5000 - a UNIX-based CAD/CAM product that was sold to a very small customer base. That software is now owned by a company in Germany.

The Plotters (and sign making, and apparel design/cutting, and publishing) come from different divisions.

And we're loaded with ex-Cadkey people too (they used to be just down the highway too) so we've got lots of man years in this industry!

[Larry Callahan]

Here is a post from the past.

 

I too am looking for a way to import RS-274-D Gerber files.

 

Has any new software been found since 2004? I downloaded the Autoview program see above and I am unable to get it to work. It just shows me the ascii text.

[Superman]

Found a site

 

http://www.softwarecompanions.com/gerbview.html

 

Mastercam V9 had a ReadHPGL Chook if that is of assistance