Dear Tony, thanks for your reply. The way you describe is like I do it usually for cut-outs with my "local" pcb fab. But: dirty pcb wants all the data for cutouts and so on the drill file. So I just added my "mechanical"-layer (which only includes the cut-outs) to the excellon drill-file and ordered the pcb. I will let you know if this worked as expected.
I had several problems (as described in my first post) with the drill data generated with designspark, because there got something mixed up in the output format with metric and imperial units and also my gerber-viewer didn't recognize the integer and decimal units correctly. So the drills and cutouts where sometimes so small, that you couldn't see them - or they were that big, that you didn't recognize them as cutouts/drillings.
Best regards Jan So hopefully everything will be ok :-)
I need some help (or just a point at the right direction) to get usable gerber-outputs with DesignSpark PCB.
I've designed a several boards, which I want to panelize and order from dirty pcb. The problem with DesignSpark PCB is, that there's out of the box no "layer" for milling/cutouts because we should use the "Outline"-layer for cutouts which won't work for several boad houses. So I've made my own "mechanical" layer, which I use for cutouts, slots and so on. The last times I ordered pcbs from a local supplier, the fab (in germany) asked me to send the gerber files for the mechanical-layer seperately. But for dirty pcbs this is not possible. So I wanted to include the mechanical layer in the drill file, which doesn't work. If I have a look at the gerber files with different viewers, there are actually no drills/cutouts/whatever.
So maybe you have an idea of how I can easily realize my cutouts with DesignSpark PCB? I don't want to order some pcs of crap worth $500 because of some wrong drill data ;-)
