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Martin Rid <martin_riddle@verison.net> wrote:

Peter <nospam@nospam9876.com> Wrote in message:
I send them a zipfile containing the gerbers. I've been doing this for20-30 years. This is a company I last used 2 years ago, with same data format.The source is Protel PCB.Dear Peter, Sorry I can not read the file you sent to me. Regards,WinnieDear Winnie,It is a zipfile containing the gerbers.Are you familiar with the ZIP format?Kind regards,PeterDear Peter, Yes, I download the ZIP, but I can not open. What kinds offiles are you going to send to me? Regards, WinnieDear Winnie,I am enclosing a newly made zipfile.If you are not able to read it, please find someone who worked in yourcompany two years ago.Kind regards,PeterDear Peter, Thanks for the reply Please tell me more details aboutthis document, so I can find some professional people to handle this!Regards, WinnieDear Winnie,It is a zipfile containing the standard gerber data files; one foreach layer.Kind regards,PeterThis "polite suggestion" worked with another one yesterday, althoughasking to find a Chinese who has worked
in
the same company for 2years is pushing it a bit...A google on RS274 (which is what everybody is quoting) shows the verystuff I am sending. Has there been some new software which theseoutfits have bought very recently and which cannot open a zipfile, oris there a new gerber format?

Just had the same issue today. The question was which side do you
want the silks screen on? Well it's in the readme file,
lol.

Cheers
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I did eventually converge on the answer.

There is RS274D which uses a separate aperture file, and RS274X which
embeds the apertures in each layer file.

It looks like some PCB firms in China changed ("upgraded"???) the
software they use, and it can no longer read RS274D. The operators are
too dumb to look at the actual filenames, and the default position is
"computer says no".

Fortunately my 1995 PCB program has a checkbox for "embedded
apertures" and that does the job.

Funny it took 20 years for this issue to pop up :)
 
Peter <nospam@nospam9876.com> wrote in
news:qn7lne$hkr$1@dont-email.me:

Martin Rid <martin_riddle@verison.net> wrote:

Peter <nospam@nospam9876.com> Wrote in message:
I send them a zipfile containing the gerbers. I've been doing
this for20-30 years. This is a company I last used 2 years ago,
with same data format.The source is Protel PCB.Dear Peter, Sorry
I can not read the file you sent to me. Regards,WinnieDear
Winnie,It is a zipfile containing the gerbers.Are you familiar
with the ZIP format?Kind regards,PeterDear Peter, Yes, I
download the ZIP, but I can not open. What kinds offiles are you
going to send to me? Regards, WinnieDear Winnie,I am enclosing a
newly made zipfile.If you are not able to read it, please find
someone who worked in yourcompany two years ago.Kind
regards,PeterDear Peter, Thanks for the reply Please tell me
more details aboutthis document, so I can find some professional
people to handle this!Regards, WinnieDear Winnie,It is a zipfile
containing the standard gerber data files; one foreach
layer.Kind regards,PeterThis "polite suggestion" worked with
another one yesterday, althoughasking to find a Chinese who has
worked
in
the same company for 2years is pushing it a bit...A google on
RS274 (which is what everybody is quoting) shows the verystuff I
am sending. Has there been some new software which theseoutfits
have bought very recently and which cannot open a zipfile, oris
there a new gerber format?

Just had the same issue today. The question was which side do you
want the silks screen on? Well it's in the readme file,
lol.

Cheers

I did eventually converge on the answer.

There is RS274D which uses a separate aperture file, and RS274X
which embeds the apertures in each layer file.

It looks like some PCB firms in China changed ("upgraded"???) the
software they use, and it can no longer read RS274D. The operators
are too dumb to look at the actual filenames, and the default
position is "computer says no".

Fortunately my 1995 PCB program has a checkbox for "embedded
apertures" and that does the job.

Funny it took 20 years for this issue to pop up :)
Click to expand...

I am sure there are others that experienced the issue that did not
dig and resolve <sic> the issue. Then you did. Those customers are
lost... gone though.

1995 PCB program, sounds like thre same one I used for so long...
 
Fortunately my 1995 PCB program has a checkbox for "embedded
apertures" and that does the job.

Funny it took 20 years for this issue to pop up :)


I am sure there are others that experienced the issue that did not
dig and resolve <sic> the issue. Then you did. Those customers are
lost... gone though.

1995 PCB program, sounds like thre same one I used for so long...

Protel/ProTrax ? I'm still using it...
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TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com> wrote:

1995 PCB program, sounds like thre same one I used for so long...

Protel/ProTrax ? I'm still using it...
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Yes; Protel PCB 2.8 :)
 
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