How to set the gerbers to 2:4?
It looks like only “4.5, mm” or “4.6, mm” is supported. Here 4.5 means the coordinate has 4 integer and 5 fractional digits.
Why do you want to do that, the “2” would restrict to very small PCBs
I am wondering what is the reasoning behind this wish.
No - not just the drills. We want the gerbers as well in 2:4. That’s the standard we’ve used for years with our in house paneling and gerber tools. Set in the MO line
Ex. MOIN for inch.
G04*
G04 #@! TF.GenerationSoftware,Altium Limited,Altium Designer,24.7.2 (38)*
G04*
G04 Layer_Physical_Order=1*
G04 Layer_Color=255*
%FSLAX24Y24*%
%MOIN*%
And I do realize in UCAMCO’s latest they state that : “It is recommended only to use metric. Imperial is there only for historic reasons and will be
deprecated at a future date.”
But the industry also stated that gerber itself would be “deprecated” - that didn’t happen.
We still need imperial units for our tools.
I can’t tell if KiCad ever supported inch units for layer files from the legacy documentation. There is no sign of it in the CLI interface, only 4.5 and 4.6 are supported.
KiCad Command-Line Interface | 9.0 | English | Documentation | KiCad
Write a Gerber post-processor to feed your old tools.
Too busy doing hardware. I’ve designed over 30 PCB’s so far this year. Working on six right now.
Yeah there’s a global shortage of round tuits.