Reopen last used gerbers?

[Zom-B]

I might have missed something, but in gerbview-nightly, how do I reopen those gerbers I opened before?

File->Open recent Gerber-> only opens one of the recent gerbers but I want to open all that I viewed the last time. I want to either

• Open those which were loaded before closing gerbview or
• Open those which I have multi-selected the last time I did File->Open Gerber File(s).

[jos]

In Pcbnew

• File
• Plot
• Check ‘Generate Gerber job file’
• Plot

In GerbView

• File
• Open Gerber Job File…

etc.

[Zom-B]

I don’t know what “Gerber Job Files” are but already-existing gerbers of our projects don’t have these, and Mentor PCB (what was used) doesn’t seem to support them at all.

[jos]

Sounds like you do not work from within Kicad. The Kicad gerber viewer does not seem to support to save a given selection as a gerber project file.

In that case you might be better off to use Gerbv. It allows to save previously loaded gerber layers as one re-loadable Gerbv project file.

[Zom-B]

I was actually trying to move away from Gerbv because it’s rendering sucks and also has no ‘recent’ function whatsoever.

I did find between the Gerber files there’s a ‘.dsn’ file structurally listing the ‘.gdo’ files with other metadata.