Utilities to handle Gerber (RS-274X) files.
Project description
Tools to handle Gerber and Excellon files in Python.
Usage Example:
import gerber
from gerber.render import GerberCairoContext
# Read gerber and Excellon files
top_copper = gerber.read('example.GTL')
nc_drill = gerber.read('example.txt')
# Rendering context
ctx = GerberCairoContext()
# Create SVG image
top_copper.render(ctx)
nc_drill.render(ctx, 'composite.svg')
Rendering Examples
Top Composite rendering
Bottom Composite rendering
Source code for this example can be found on github.
Install from source:
$ git clone https://github.com/curtacircuitos/pcb-tools.git
$ cd pcb-tools
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python setup.py install
Documentation
You can find the documentation for PCB-Tools on readthedocs.
Development and Testing
Dependencies for developing and testing pcb-tools are listed in test-requirements.txt. Use of a virtual environment is strongly recommended.
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv)$ pip install -r test-requirements.txt
(venv)$ pip install -e .
We use nose to run pcb-tools’s suite of unittests and doctests.
(venv)$ nosetests
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