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DirtyPCBs support / Updating boards after an order
I've had two PCB orders come back with "Problem" status saying "we can't open these files".
First, sorry for causing trouble with this but maybe I found a pattern. For each of these two orders, I created the order on the new dev site with an Eagle version 7.1.0 .brd file. It would submit fine and even showed the rendered board wonderfully. But because I'm a dolt and don't check carefully enough, I found something I wanted to change on the boards and re-submitted them again using the "Update files" link on the order page.
I think that's what might be causing the issue? Because after doing the updates, the rendering no longer appears which wasn't a big deal but I thought the files were still OK. The extension of the file is also changed from the .brd file I uploaded to a .zip but that's probably from your back-end process that converts Eagle files to CAM files and zips them up, right?
Is it possible that the back-end Eagle -> CAM-zip conversion works wonderfully on the initial order but then later when updating files, something fails? Again, sorry for causing trouble with this, but I re-upload my boards a lot until they get accepted by the board house, there's always something to change/improve/mess-up, and it's a feature I really love about this site.
I also have a lot of experience with web applications in PHP, Rails, Flask, Go, cgi-bin's etc. You guys are awesome for doing this favour of giving us all cheap Chinese PCB-connections so if there's something I could help try and fix, let me know and I'd be happy to volunteer some of my time.