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points by bobmcnamara 1 day ago | 0 comments
IPC-2581 is the future.

Good riddance to the compatibly hellhole of 30 different flavors of Gerber/Gerberx/NCdrill

EDIT: haven't even mentioned everyone's different goofball CSV BOMs

[–] delfinom 17 hours ago
There is a singular gerber standard, the deviation is generally just caused by CAM tools.
[–] bobmcnamara 4 hours ago
The Gerber standard just doesn't describe a PCB, just the shape of the layers. I would've sworn there was old dead Gerber, GerberX(the one you want), and then some newer ones that are unreliably implemented across programs.

You almost always need an NC drill.

You have to add a separate GerbJob to describe what the board is made of.