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Originally Posted by sil
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No, but I tried it now... and no success, it reports an error (they say there are limitations... BTW, they have instructable
here)
Gerbers are generated by Altium, I never had a problem with them, so there must be some formatting issue which those small apps do not accept.
Gerber is standard interchange format for PCB manufacturers... and there are no problems printing them with laser printers on transparent foil, or even printing directly on PCB with inkjet printer (I am converting one Epson for that purpose... but it will accept very small PCB size, 60mm wide maximum).
Gerbview will accept that file and will generate SVG, but the result is not accepted by RepRap, so... very frustrating situation.
And I am very sure the conversion from gerber to g-code is not complicated, file formats are not that different in principle, and both are very well documented and standardised for a long time.