Thanks for the information, Brad. When I was using Protel's Gerber import
functionality, it was only with Gerber files Protel itself had generated, so I
never saw the important limitations you're describing.

---Joel

Joel,
Glad I could enlighten or warn.
Plenty of users only find it out after their expectations are raised.
The first one that I stumbled across was that it wouldn't even import some
Protel Generated files that had been re-exported from their own Camtastic
2000DE after a couple of very minor edits.
Some externally generated Gerbers may be formatted much closer than
others to the precise format required.for Protel import. I have heard of a
couple people having success with only edits to the initial Gerber
configuration statements (approx. the first dozen lines). That wasn't the
case in a couple of my attempted imports, the required edits grew
exponentially as I tried to progress.
--
Sincerely,
Brad Velander.

"Joel Koltner" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the information, Brad. When I was using Protel's Gerber import
functionality, it was only with Gerber files Protel itself had generated,
so I never saw the important limitations you're describing.

---Joel