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Working with circuit boards/gerber files I have designed a custom circuit board that I now want to model a case for, is there a way I can import the gerber files into Fusion to work with? Will Fusion create a model based on those files. Select Gerbers for viewing from the PCB’s design container and open any format. This includes legacy designs as well as other EDA tool formats. The viewer supports unisoft software, PLT files, Excellon, GERBV, both Gerber X and X2, and GBR files.

Here is a list of Best Free Gerber Viewer Software for Windows. These software let you open and view Gerber files (GRB files) with the help of their extensive tool set. Some of the software listed below are Gerber editor software as well, and let you view as well as make changes to Gerber PCB designs. A SOLIDWORKS PCB project is a set of design documents whose output defines a single implementation. For example, the schematics and PCB in a PCB project include the fileset required to manufacture a single printed circuit board. The Role of the project File. The set of design documents that make up the project are bought together by the project. The way I've been trying to do the import of Gerber files into an Altium Designer PCB document is that I open a new PCB document and then I import one Gerber file at a time by choosing File-Import-Gerber File.

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In this Gerber tutorial, I will teach you how to create the files you need for a 2-layer board using Cadsoft Eagle. After you have completed this tutorial you will have all the necessary files needed to send to most PCB manufacturers.

This tutorial is out of date. I have switched to KiCad, so I recommend the updated tutorial How to Create Gerber Files in KiCad.

Step 1: Open the CAM Processor

In Eagle, open Board view. Click the “CAM” button or choose “File->CAM Processor”. This will open the CAM Processor tool that is used to generate the files.

Here you can define the sections you want to create files for.

But you don’t really need to understand this. Actually I have never really thought about the details of this until I was writing this article. I have just been using ready-made configurations. And that is probably what you want to do as well.

Step 2: Open a predefined job

To simplify creating Gerber files, Eagle comes with a predefined job for this. It is called gerb274x.cam.

(Note: If you want to order PCBs from Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCB service, you should instead download their own CAM-file from the bottom of their submission guidelines page. Be aware that this will give you different file names than the ones listed below in this article.)

To open it in the CAM Processor click “File->Open->Job…”

Browse to your …/eagle/cam/ folder, and you should see a file called gerb274x.cam. Choose it and click “Open”.

You will now see five tabs in the CAM Processor. Each of these tabs will generate a Gerber file.

Step 3: Adding a second silk screen (Optional)

If you look at the tabs, you will see that you don’t have a file for silk screen bottom. For simple boards, the silk screen is usually on the top layer so that you don’t need the bottom. Some of the cheap circuit board manufacturers don’t even allow bottom silk screen.

But if you need silk screen on bottom layer as well, follow these steps:

• Click “Add”
• Change Section to something like “Silk Screen SOL”
• Change File to “%N.pls”
• Deselect all layers
• Select layers 20 “Dimension”, 22 “bPlace” and 26 “bNames”

There you go.

Step 4: Create each gerber file

Select where you want to put the Gerber files by clicking on the “File” button and choosing a folder. Do this for all the tabs.

Then click “Process Job”. This creates your Gerber files.

Step 5: Adding file for drill holes

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Even though drilling is supported by the Gerber format, manufacturers usually want the Excellon file format for specifying drill holes. Luckily, Eagle also comes with a predefined job for creating a drill file.

(Note: This step is automatically done if you’re using the CAM-file from Seeed Studio that I linked to in step 2.)

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Open it in the CAM Processor by clicking “File->Open->Job…”

Browse to your …/eagle/cam/ folder, and open the file named “excellon.cam”.

Select where to put the output file by clicking on the “File” button.

Then click “Process Job” to create your Excellon file.

Step 6: Check output files

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You should now have the following files:

• *.cmp (Copper, component side)
• *.drd (Drill file)
• *.dri (Drill Station Info File) – Usually not needed
• *.gpi (Photoplotter Info File) – Usually not needed
• *.plc (Silk screen, component side)
• *.pls (Silk screen, solder side)
• *.sol (Copper, solder side)
• *.stc (Solder stop mask, component side)
• *.sts (Solder stop mask, solder side)

After you have created each gerber file, you should always look at them using a Gerber viewer to make sure everything is ok.

Summary

This Gerber tutorial shows one way of creating the files you need. Even though this should be OK for many PCB manufacturers, you might find that some would want the files created in a slightly different way. If so, don’t worry, they will probably provide you with a Job file you can load directly into Eagle or at least have a good explanation on how to do it on their website.

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