Gerber regular polygon (ADD<nr>P,... vs. ADD<nr>OC8,...)

[tmulzer]

Now the first Gerber-files created with EAGLE8.6/7 pop up in our production ..

WHY did you stop using the OC8-macro and begin using the regular polygon from Gerber-spec in your CAM-output?

Yes .. it's in the specification.

but .. NO .. my film plotter doesn't support it!

Maybe, I'm not the only one using an older film plotter from Barco (now UCAMCO).

Well - I found a workaround - replacing P with OC8 in my CAM-middleware. But that took me almost 3 hours to find out and solve after the first error in my RIP-Software.

But .. why? - the macro did work .. never touch a running system.

Kind regards,

Tasso

[edwin.robledo]

Hi Tasso,

Thanks for posting on the forum, I am really sorry for the inconvenience. I would like to remind you that you can continue loading legacy CAM Jobs to produce the same Gerber files as you did in earlier versions of EAGLE.  The legacy CAM jobs continue to read and use the eagle.def for defined drivers.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Edwin

[C.Nicks]

From what I understand, I think he's saying that he was provided these files, and did not generate them. He may need to instruct his customers that they need to provide legacy gerbers.

I recently sent a set of new X2 gerbers to fabrication, and their software could not auto-recognize the format. The order was placed on hold until I provided them a set output in RS-274X format.

Note: I only changed the output format and did not have to use a legacy CAM job.