#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER INSTALL#
#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER MANUAL#
#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER FULL#
#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER VERIFICATION#
#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER SOFTWARE#

Designed for use with McCAD created documents it can also be used to view Gerbers created by other CAD systems.

This compact self-contained viewer allows you to view standard 274-X format Gerber plotting documents.

#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER VERIFICATION#

It makes pre-production verification of your PCB designs fast, easy, intuitive and fun. Select the desired OS to begin the download. ZofzPCB lets you see inside your board – between the layers – so you can give it a truly thorough inspection.

#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER SOFTWARE#

*Design and Strategy for Software Test (Lucent).ZofzPCB is a FREE 3D Gerber viewer that shows you more than just how your board is going to look. You are obviously in the fortunate position where you do not regard the possible errors arising as having sufficient commercial impact on you or you regard them as sufficiently unlikely that you can afford to ignore them, but that is not the case for everybody.or perhaps this is an aspect of the situation which has not occurred to you?Īnyway you better touch wood, 'cause you may find a bug tomorrow. Else why would we be receiving downloaded updates? Regardless of the quality of your program the environment in which it runs is such a complex program, with bugs as yet undiscovered. At this point the software is released, but bug discovery does not cease. Obviously the rate of bug discovery depends on the rate of testing, but when plotted against effort, the rate of discovery rises, plateaus and then starts to fall.

#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER MANUAL#

Bugs are recorded as they are discovered by manual and automated testing. Software when first written is alleged* to contain a bug in every ten lines. In some commercial environments a free sanity check (excluding labour) is what most of us who have written (and tested) software call a no-brainer.Ĭomplex programs written for commerce have their release date determined by the rate of bug discovery.

#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER FULL#

I don't do a hundred boards a year so buying a full out editor like Wise Gerbtool doesn't make sense.Īll of the numerous packages I have used have all of those and more. Again, Gerbtool (old version, not the new one) does this but in a very 'clunky' way. What I usually want to do is add some kind of graphic (company logo for instance) or add text. Get your free graphical PCB board file check report in minutes. This tool can potentially save you money because we can help you determine if your Gerber Files are ready for manufacturing. As you get closer to placing your PCB order, we highly recommend that you check out our FreeDFM tool. I don't need to edit tracks I'll do that in the actual board file. Click Here to link to a 3rd-party Gerber Viewer vendor.

#FREE GERBER FILE VIEWER INSTALL#

I make my living from IP and don't fault anyone for protecting their means of income, but even my Solidworks Premium ($6500.00) allows install on a home and work PC. The problem I have with this (as so many of us do) is that I work on things at work and home. It is very good and I wouldn't mind paying the $100 or so for the 'save' feature except for one thing it 'locks' to the network card in the PC. I use the free version of Viewmate from Pentalogix. It’s free of cost, easy to use and appropriate for the average computer user. I don't use Orcad's Windows Layout tools so installing all of this for just using the Gerber editor is a drag (it won't run outside of Layout). Gerber files can only be viewed using dedicated applications, one of which is Gerber Viewer. The 'problem' with this is that you can't use it without a full install of Orcad (including the now defunct Rainbow dongle that plugs into a parallel port - which are becoming increasingly rarer these days). There are many free gerber viewers available on the web. While evaluating Gerber files viewers the search yielded innovative 3D viewer featured on. Like the thread for best PCB layout I pose the question of what is the best editor/viewer for Gerber files? I 'own' Wise Gerbtool, however it is part of Orcad Layout (ver 9.1) that I bought years ago. The first step in verifying gerber files is to obtain a gerber viewer. ZofzPCB, as the 3D Gerber viewer is known by, is the first free to use software package I have come accross that can render a PCB in real world graphics, that the colours are true to life, and I do/have used a few in my 40 years as a PCB designer.

Free gerber file viewer