Press Release from Ucamco
Ucamco is delighted to present its ground-breaking second extension for the Gerber format. This offers an unequivocal standard for non-image data that is just as simple, practical and universally accessible as the well-known Gerber image data format it now supports.
Read moreArticle by Karel Tavernier, published in the November issue of The PCB Magazine
Often called the “backbone of the electronics industry,” the gerber format is the easiest and most reliable image data transfer format available to PCB designers and engineers. unfortunately, this format is often used incorrectly, including one practice that PCB designers should cease immediately: painting pads and areas.
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Read moreArticle by Karel Tavernier, published in Printed Circuit Design & Fab
The latest extension to the age-old format describes layer structures, features and functions.
Output and read by every PCB design and engineering system in the world, the Gerber format is the de facto standard for one of the industry’s most delicate, critically important processes: CAD-to-CAM data transfer. Simple yet powerful, Gerber is an image description language that permits complex designs to be described completely and accurately in an unequivocal one-file/one-layer format. The format uses a structure that can be read by machines and humans.
Read moreArticle by Karel Tavernier, published on the EETimes designlines blog.
As caretaker of the venerable Gerber format, we at Ucamco I feel bound to react to the insightful blog An Embarrassment to the Electronics Community by Vince Mazur and especially the comment it generated.
I will restrict myself to the context of PCB fabrication, in which I have some experience.
Read moreUcamco, caretaker of the Gerber Format, released version 2.1 of its online Reference Gerber Viewer. New features are : Support for drill files in NC or Excellon format and support for Gerber X2 attributes
The URL of the Reference Gerber Viewer is https://gerber.ucamco.com
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