On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Bob Blick wrote: >> Somehow, I waded till here. All the dimensioning that I see are in mils. >> Are there any options where I can see them in millimetres ? >> (Some option some place ? Or does it talk only mils) > > Setup>Preferences>Global Tab Couldn't find it there, searching searching, eventually found it in Tools -> Options -> Global -> General >> >> I created the Top Layer for test. It did create a .pho file as you said. >> When you output a .pho file. It has some settings to output in different >> formats. I guess the output device should be a photoplotter ? Did procee= d >> with the photoplotter option, as that seemed logical (?) I guess. > > Yes, photoplotter. > >> > Get yourself a Gerber viewer like PentaLogi ViewMate and open all your >> > layers and if everything looks good and lines up you are good to go. P= ay >> > particular attention to drills, they need to be the right size as well >> > as in the right place. I've had situations where some of the drill siz= es >> > were right and some were an order of magnitude off. Also layers in >> > English units and drills in Metric! >> > >> >> I downloaded the free version of it. Tried to open the .pho file with >> it. But it >> looked that extension was not supported. But forcing it to use All files= , >> did open up the Top layer in it. > > Sorry, I should have said "Import gerber" for each layer. I think it's > function key F2. You'll have to do one layer at a time, and select a > different color layer each time. File open is for some sort of > PentaLogix job format. > >> For the drill output, it has 2 options: ASCII, EIA-244. What option >> should >> I be looking at ? > > Ascii > >> Any idea, how I can get both the board dimensioning and the drill to be >> in the same units. I hate these multi units dimensioning systems. > > Just make sure you select metric in the NC drill options. I think. > >> Thanks for showing me the direction to the shore. > > I wish someone had helped me when I started learning it! But that was a > long time ago, when was a DOS program, and there was no useful Internet. :-) Long time, everything was quite slow. Learning stuff took a lot of time= .. And hardly anyone to give a hint even. I don't know whether it is me. Some of the tools I do find it very intuitiv= e. While some others do have some good features, aren't anywhere near to being intuitive. Best Regards, Manu --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .