I'm sure that the PCB house that we often use (QuickCircuits) sorts out all the pannelising out for you. Maybe your place will to? Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Lawrence Lile [SMTP:lilel@TOASTMASTER.COM] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 2:36 PM > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: [OT] Panelizing a board > > I've been a recent convert to Eagle PCB CAD, and even paid them $50 for a > registered copy. > > I do pay my shareware bills, > > and I wish Jory would excommunicate all these guys offering CRACKED > software > on the PIClist! I hope that these crackers actually write some REAL > software > someday, and then get it ripped off, and then go broke making no money > after > being robbed. > > > > Here's my dillema. I need to panelize a PCB - it's a 2" X 2" board and I > need 6 of them in a 4" x 6" layout. No problem in my old CAD systrem > (which > other than having panelization was useless). Eagle is a great software > package, but it does not have a panelization option. > > How about just copying everything over and over? No good - I didn't buy > enough square inches of EAGLE (crippleware, you know) to do a very big > board. All my designs are really tiny! > > I found I could monkey-wrench a panelized version by making a gerber file, > then making another with an offset, then another with another offset, and > using a text editor and scrunching them all together, moving blocks of > stuff > around to fix the syntax of the file. Tedious, time consuming, and > educational. > > I tried this old DOS trick: copy gerber1.gbr +gerber2.gbr +gerber3.gbr > final.gbr > which appends all the files together. My software can read it, but I > don't > really trust it very well. Anybody know if this would really result in a > valid Gerber file? > > Is there any Gerber file editor out there that can panelize a gerber file > without so much pain? Same issue with a drill file? I don't have a way > of > reading back a drill file to know if it is corrupt or not. > > -- Lawrence Lile