Creating gerber files from a PC board?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

I have a PC board design printed on paper
(the SOL terminal/computer from 1976) that I would like
to create a gerber file from.

Is there any process for creating a gerber file from a
scanned image?

Maybe with some help along the way?

thanks,

-- glen

 

[Jeroen]

if the purpose to have some new boards made, can't you ask your boardhouse
to make films from the paper artwork? I guess they have the right tools for
that.

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> schreef in bericht
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I have a PC board design printed on paper
(the SOL terminal/computer from 1976) that I would like
to create a gerber file from.

Is there any process for creating a gerber file from a
scanned image?

Maybe with some help along the way?

thanks,

-- glen

 

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> schreef in bericht
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I have a PC board design printed on paper
(the SOL terminal/computer from 1976) that I would like
to create a gerber file from.

Jeroen wrote:

if the purpose to have some new boards made, can't you
ask your boardhouse to make films from the paper artwork?
I guess they have the right tools for that.

It might be that others will do that, but that it will
cost a lot more. I believe even in they do, I will
still need the drill pattern in gerber format. I presume
that the drill is computer controlled.

-- glen

 

[Peter Bennett]

On Fri, 28 May 2004 08:34:00 GMT, glen herrmannsfeldt
<gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

I have a PC board design printed on paper
(the SOL terminal/computer from 1976) that I would like
to create a gerber file from.

Is there any process for creating a gerber file from a
scanned image?

http://www.outputcity.com/ will scan films and produce Gerbers.

I haven't used them - just saw the link in a Protel mailing list.





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[Charles W. Johnson Jr.]

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
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I have a PC board design printed on paper
(the SOL terminal/computer from 1976) that I would like
to create a gerber file from.

Is there any process for creating a gerber file from a
scanned image?

Maybe with some help along the way?

thanks,

-- glen

Scan the paper into a bmp then use it as a backplain while you layout the
PCB in either a CAD program, Autocad or QuickCad do this, or in a pcb layout
program I think Eagle will do it.
--
Charles.