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Allegro NC Drill and NC Route Integer.decimal format not exported in Gerber

Hello,

In Allegro 17.2 2016, how do I force the INTEGER.DECIMAL format commands into the .drl and .rou exported outputs?

Let me explain in more detail.

When I export gerber files for copper, solder mask and etc, I see in the files the Gerber FS command which give the X and Y Integer.Decimal format. See

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/197584/how-do-you-know-what-resolution-a-gerber-file-has

For the NC drill and NC route, I put in the NC parameters a check in the Enhanced Excellon format with leading zero suppression. See picture. Is the leading zero suppression bad?

When I export the files and look in the .drl and .rou, I do not see the format anywhere. When I import into a free viewer such as Viewmate, it makes a guess. I see the NC route scaled 10x too large.

Thanks,

Frank

DavidJHutchins over 3 years ago

Stopped working with Hotfix_SPB17.40.018, still doesn't work with Hotfix_SPB17.40.020
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EnottonE over 3 years ago

Try using a format where the decimal point is not 5 but 4 characters, i.e. for example 3.4 or 2.4 (depending on the size of the board). This helped us, before that, when using the 3.5 or 2.5 format with the drilling card, there were often problems, then the holes would disperse very much in the scale, then decrease in a heap.
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DavidJHutchins over 3 years ago

Hotfix_SPB17.40.022 fixed this in the .rou files, but not the .drl files

D:\SPB_Data\xxx\yyy>cat *drl *rou | grep INCH
INCH
INCH,00.00000
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frank mpbc over 3 years ago in reply to EnottonE

Hello EnottonE,

It looks like that the viewmate viewer doesn't get better when using 4 characters instead of 5. I found the Viewmate viewer that allows to override its guess. Thanks for your input.
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frank mpbc over 3 years ago in reply to frank mpbc

I found the Viewmate viewer [[setting]] that allows to override its guess.
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