topic Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue in Fusion Electronics Forum

Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

PinRudolf — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:48:37 GMT

Hi,

On gerber viewers from pcbWay, jlcPCB and Ucamco the annular rings and line widths did not match my Fusion model.

They showed up like this:

But were designed like this:

I've read on the forum that people were having trouble with the Polygon command when using a comma as decimal separator and indeed, that was the issue here as well. Though unlike the polygon issue this one has not been fixed with the last update.

Obviously switching my Windows settings is a workaround but I did just order some PCB's with silly through hole pads before I noticed this error. 😉

Just wanted to make sure Autodesk is aware of this!

(And if you fix it, could you nudge the Revit MEP team to fix their comma separator errors as well, they have been on it for years!) 😉

Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

jorge_garcia — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 23:37:04 GMT

Hi @PinRudolf ,

I hope you're doing well. Are you aware of the environment variable the corrects this so that you don't have to switch your Windows settings? Here it is for your info:

Environment variable to fix comma issue

FORCE_DECIMAL_GERBER_OUTPUT
true

Best Regards,

Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

PinRudolf — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:43:13 GMT

Thank you kindly Jorge! That sounds much better! I'm going to check this out, first I need to learn how to set environment variables. 🙂

Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

xpuipc — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 13:28:12 GMT

Hi @jorge_garcia,

where can i change this variable?

Thank you

Torsten

Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

PinRudolf — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:50:23 GMT

This works great Jorge! Thank you kindly.

Here's a quick instruction how to set environment variables:
https://www.architectryan.com/2018/08/31/how-to-change-environment-variables-on-windows-10/

Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

PinRudolf — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:46:51 GMT

Hi @jorge_garcia ,

This issue seems to be solved with the latest update? The update description does not mention it but I can no longer reproduce the error. Can you confirm this?

Thank you kindly!

Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

jorge_garcia — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:32:27 GMT

Hi @PinRudolf ,

I hope you're doing well. I know something was coming in this update to help with the CAM and polygon output. I'll confirm but I think the devs fixed it.

I'll repost once I have it confirmed.

Best Regards,

Re: Report; gerber export, decimal separator issue

PinRudolf — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:35:21 GMT

Much appreciated Jorge! You guys are the best!