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| Posted: 01:50am 10 Jul 2019 |
Completely agree with Warpspeed on this one. Gerbers need to be RS274X, and the drill data(for drilling all the holes in the board) needs to be in Excellon format.
I note that several of the cheap PCB packages do NOT allow you to export Gerber files.
Some softwares will only output files that certain PCB factories will accept.
Gerbers work anywhere.
I use Sprint Layout 6, which is NOT free, but it is very affordable at only fifty Euros. That's about US$56 or so in American dollars. Very affordable.
Up to four-layer boards, and can export 274X and Excellon drill data files. I use SL6 for all my PCB designs.
Considering the price of SOME PCB CAD softwares, SL6 is extremely well priced.
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