Hello!
We are using DKRed for a simple two-layer board that has plated and non-plated thru holes. The plated hole locations are coming in correctly, but the non-plated are not being represented correctly in the preview tool: they are grouped in the bottom corner of the board. It looks like this might be a bug in the visualizer tool, as we independently verified that the non-plated drill file is correct in our CAM350 and ViewMate gerber viewer tools. How can we guarantee that these drill files will be interpreted by the fab house correctly?
Drill file causing issues attached, we are using Cadstar and CAM350 for this board
D300159A_NP.drl (91 Bytes)
Having had a look at your file.
Looking like the viewer doesn’t like the omission of the y-cordinates in your drill file.
M48
FMAT,2
T1C0.128
%
M25
T1
X00Y00
X0125
X00Y01188
X0125
X00Y02375
X0125
M30
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Played around with it a bit more this morning and the issue was ultimately that dimensions were not interpreted as
D300159A_NP_a.drl (99 Bytes)
mils but 1/10 mil. I added two zeroes to the originally provided file and everything lined up, the skipped Y coordinates did not make a difference. I also loaded both versions of the NP drill into ViewMate and they showed up the same, so it looks like it’s a limitation with this viewer.
That is great to hear. Thank you for the progress report.
