Measure distance with Gerbv

Manufacturing
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Hallo,
I have a set of gerber files without the original source. I want to measure some distances in the layout. According to the manual, it is possible to do that with the Gerbv tool.
But I couldn’t find out how :frowning:
Can you please explain me how to do that?

Thank you

Application: gerbview
Version: 4.0.2+dfsg1-stable release build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1009,GCC 5.3.1,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Boost version: 1.58.0
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=OFF

2

There is the same coordinate readout like you got in PCBnew (with distance from last position - mark with [space] and your current one)… right lower edge of the window.
Can’t find a way to snap to the center of pads though, so the accuracy then depends on what you want to measure.