Design rule setup downloadable files our kind customer has provided loadable drc rule and. View and convert gerber, pdf, excellon and dxf with gerbview. The generated excellon shows an oval hole in gerbview. Pcb manufacturing gerber guidelines advanced circuits. The gerber file is a connector and bridge between designers, engineers, and pcb manufacturers. Other manufacturers because excellon is a pioneer in the manufacture of computerized drilling and routing equipment, it was necessary for excellon to develop a set of commands to control the machines. In an active pcb document, click file fabrication outputs nc drill files. Cam file, whereas, my pcb manufacturer requires the excellon drill file and the tool list. Just as a heads up, you might also hear of an nc drill file being referred to as an excellon file, which is based on the drilling and routing machines that were made by the excellon. Instead of making an excellon file for the drill data which looks okay to my eye, but apparently the pcb house doesnt like it, id like to generate the drill data in gerber x2 format. Flatcam lets you take your designs to a cnc router. Customize your pcb drill sizes with altium designer. To purchase, please use the menu helpbuy for commercial use in gerberlogix.
For your convenience, we have written guides on how to generate the necessary files in the correct format in some of the most popular circuit design programs available. It needs to go through every manufacturing process, and the factory can clearly define the customers needs. Nearly all layout packages will output an excellon drill file. Cloud based worldclass applications for sales and service. Nc drill setup online documentation for altium products.
The version is just the latest on github today i have just pulled from. This will match at least 95% of excellon files generated by most software. That said a zero size aperture is the easiest thing in the world to plot with, maybe altium will generate zero sized apertures for example when ve mask expansion exactly tents a via and other cam packages plot it correctly. Excellon file is a textbased file format which is used to control the actions of a cnc drilling machine, commonly used in the drilling of printed circuit boards pcb. If i click on the drill header, i can only change the numeric format. You can open gerber, excellon or gcode, edit it or create from scatch, and output gcode. How to download free altium libraries online from components search. How to create gerber files and nc drill files in altium designer.
There are currently 18 filename extensions associated with the altium application in our database. Before importing the gerber, nc drill and netlist files into the new cam. The set of commands used on drillers later became known as format one. For our new carbide copper pcb software, click here for our carbide create 2d cadcam, click here. Read about export excellon drill file, and then importing into isopro 3. A drill file without embedded tool sizes looks like this.
Dealership management system is a worldclass solution for single location or a large dealership network. The hole is imported as a circular shaped hole instead of an oval shaped hole when loading that excellon file in flatcam. If you dont know the exact meaning of the parameters. The output is generated when the configured output generator is run.
Download a free trial to find out which altium software best suits your needs. For printed circuit board manufacture, we require the gerber files in rs274x format and a drill file in excellon format. First, we will create a blank cam file and then import the necessary files. Gerber file ultimate guidea beginners guide to gerber. Just as a heads up, you might also hear of an nc drill file being referred to as an excellon file, which is based on the drilling and routing machines that were made by the excellon corporation back in the day. Almost every pcb layout software can produce this format. Delete items in a gerber file based on aperture and usage selection. Download the newest version of our multifunctional gerber viewer gerberlogix and try it for free. Viewing gerber and excellon files using pentalogix viewmate. The download v2032the latest updates 03312020 portable version includes a folder with the program, manual 1.
Each drill file requires a separate toolfile giving the diameter of the tool in some cases the toolfile is embedded in the header of the drill file. The design containing this pcb spiral is a reference design from linear technologies and there are design files available for download here clicking link will download a. The first machines introduced by excellon were drilling machines. Because of excellons long history and dominance of the pcb drilling business for many years their format is a defacto industry standard. The cam editor in altium designer also supports traditional file formats e. The nc numeric controlled drill file will be used to determine exactly where all of your drill holes are placed on your board and what size they need to be. How to generate gerber files in altium designer feedback. Importing gerbers into altium is simple, but there isnt an easy was to get the nc drill file in. The nc drill setup dialog is accessed in one of the following ways using an nc drill output generator in an outputjob configuration file. The gerber file will guide component locations, which will be regarded as important reference data for smt or thruhole assembly. How to generate nc drill files based on different pcb. The file extension for nc drill data created in the altium designer pcb editor is. Cam editor imports and exports online documentation for altium.
Altium designer lets you export your drilling instructions in the popular gerber and excellon 2 file formats. Download to a convenient directory on your hard drive. The output will be generated immediately upon clicking ok in the. Exports\ gerbers folder you extracted from the download zip mentioned at the start of. Altium is capable of opening the file types listed below. The excellon drill format is a subset of rs274d and is used by the drilling and routing machines made by the excellon corporation. So ive drawn a basic 2 component design to start learning my way around using eagle cad, and importing those designs into our quick circuit mill using. Flatcam is free software that converts gerber and excellon drill files to gcode, which you can then use in the current software version, the bantam tools desktop milling machine software. How to generate gerber files in altium designer how to generate gerber files from. Then in 1979, excellon revised format two to combine drilling and routing commands into one.
When you have this completed, create a new zip file to upload to osh park, but make sure that you only put the merged drill file in it. We recommend you to choose the same units and format parameters as gerber. This dialog is used to configure nc drill file output options. Windows often associates a default program to each file extension, so that when you doubleclick the file, the program launches automatically.
Combining kicad drill files rheingold heavyrheingold heavy. Export excellon drill file, and then importing into isopro. A tool list is used in combination with your excellon drill file to create your drill. How to convert drilling layer from gerber to excellon format in.
Is there any way to generate the above mentioned data from altium, or is there any other conversion tool for the same. Image to excellon converter this application allows you to load an image file and convert it to a excellon drill file. At the pcb or schematic document level, click home. Bestinclass dealership management solution for single location dealership or multilocation. We originally made this tutorial to help people who needed to mill pcbs using the otherplan public beta before pcb support was implemented, but its still useful, so were keeping it available. If you cannot generate one, we can in most cases create one from your fabrication drawing for an engineering fee. Your drill file should always show the finished holesize you require. Therefore, prior to real generation of nc drill files, its necessary to set concerning parameters by clicking manufacturencnc parameters to enter nc parameters dialogue in nc parameters dialogue, items of output file and excellon format need to be determined. Nc drill file output is configured in the nc drill setup dialog. When excellon introduced machines with routing capability, a set of commands called format two was created. For dxf file circle entities will be used to define a drill hole.
Gerbv is an open source gerber file rs274x only viewer. Conversion between the file types listed below is also possible with the help of altium. Altium, the gerber files and circuit sheets in pdf format. They wouldnt be happy about two holes but the sceenshot indicates a problem with the aperture file not drill file. Isolation routing is one of many tasks that flatcam is perfect for.
Altium has published a guide on producing those files here. If you wish to remove viewmate from your computer, use the addremove programs tool found in the control panel. Gerbv lets you load several files on top of each other, do. The design files contains a mentor pads pcb file but also gerber files. Your drill file specifies where to place the holes. A licence for commercial usage is available for 109 euro plus vat per workplace. Altium designer circuitmaker eagle diptrace proteus kicad. Inches enable this option to use imperial units where all work is done in mils 1 inch millimeters enable this option to use metric units where all work is done in millimeters format. In this image, you can see that all the drill positions we expect are now a uniform color that matches the color of the merged drill file. Load altium gerber and excellon into flatcam duration. On this page, you can find the list of file extensions associated with the altium application. A file extension is the set of three or four characters at the end of a filename. Different from altium designer, the default format of nc drill files exported by cadence allegro is not excellon s. The output file is some other format than the excellon nc drills file that the fab house can use, even when it has the extension.
Now that youve got a general idea of what gerber and drill files are about lets dive into autodesk eagle and see how to generate. Im about to send my gerber files to osh park however im having trouble generating the drill file in altium 14. I have one component having a footprint with a pad of type thruhole but with an oval shaped hole. Keep leading and trailing zeroes if this option is enabled, all leading and trailing zeroes will appear in the generated nc drill file suppress leading zeroes if this option is enabled, no leading zeroes will appear in the generated nc drill file suppress trailing zeroes if this option is enabled, no trailing zeroes will appear in the generated nc drill. The excellon format is used to program cnc drilling macines for drilling holes in pcbs. File extensions tell you what type of file it is, and tell windows what programs can open it. The freeware licence is only valid for uncommercial usage. To view rs274x gerber files or excellon drill files. Different from altium designer, the default format of nc drill files exported by cadence allegro is not excellons. Also its worth mentioning that altium generates 2 files for round and square shapes. As such, excellon files are sometimes refererred to as ncdrill files. The gerber file format has been in use for many years for computeraided manufacturing of pcb layouts, and pairs with the excellon format for pcb drill files.