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Data out of range or Gerber area bigger than workspace

Jordi
2016-04-07
2016-05-17
  • Jordi

    Jordi - 2016-04-07

    In some cases, for very big images, gerber file coordinates are too big for gerber editor workspace, so a message saying "Incoming data out of range" or similar can appear. In order to prevent that you can easily edit the gerber header manually to decrease scale.

    If you open exported gerber file with Notepad or any similar software you can see that in the header of the file there's a line very similar to this:
    %FSLAX33Y33*%

    Which means: Format Statement Leading Zeros Suppression, Absolute Coordinates format=3.3

    That basically defines the comma position of the following coordinates, so to decrease scale by a tenth you just have to increase the decimal number of each axis, resulting on this:
    %FSLAX34Y34*%

    Which results in: Format Statement Leading Zeros Suppression, Absolute Coordinates format=3.4

    By the other side, to increase scale by a tenth you just have to decrease that decimal number:
    %FSLAX32Y32*%

    Which results in: Format Statement Leading Zeros Suppression, Absolute Coordinates format=3.2

     
  • Sergey Rachev Iliev

    Where is the source code?

     

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