Autocad dwg to gerber converter?

[Oppie]

I've got a bunch of old drawings done in Autocad (stored as .dwg format)
that we need to convert to Gerber format. Anybody have recommendations for
an inexpensive converter program or service?

TIA - Oppie

 

[Martin Riddle]

I've got a bunch of old drawings done in Autocad (stored as .dwg
format) that we need to convert to Gerber format. Anybody have
recommendations for an inexpensive converter program or service?

TIA - Oppie

Find someone with CAM350, I believe it can import non-gerber stuff and
spit out gerber.
It's $750 if you wish to purchase.

Our PCB guy may be able to do it. I'll email his contact information.

Cheers

 

[Martin Riddle]

Find someone with CAM350, I believe it can import non-gerber stuff and
spit out gerber.
It's $750 if you wish to purchase.

Our PCB guy may be able to do it. I'll email his contact information.

Cheers

Send me a email THEN I can send his contact info.

Thanks

 

[Oppie]

CAM350! YES! Company owner who did all the cad work previously before
turning it over to me, did it mostly in Autocad. He's now largely retired
and doesn't even have CAD on his computer anymore. I vaguely remember that
he had a copy of CAM350 with a dongle. I'll check to see if he will transfer
it to me.

I've gotten so accustomed to using Eagle now. It has a built-in CAM
processor. Then for a separate check before release, I use GC-Prevue from
Graphicode. I'm running the free package which does little more than view
files. For $495 (which I haven't been able to get), you can convert from DXF
to gerber. Would need one of our autocad guys to convert from dwg to dfx for
me.

Thank you for jogging my memory.
A blessed Christmas and New Year*
Oppie

* if Christmas is not your thing, feel free to wish me otherwise. It's time
we stopped secularizing religious holidays in the interest of political
correctness.

 

[Joerg]

CAM350! YES! Company owner who did all the cad work previously before
turning it over to me, did it mostly in Autocad. He's now largely
retired and doesn't even have CAD on his computer anymore. I vaguely
remember that he had a copy of CAM350 with a dongle. I'll check to see
if he will transfer it to me.

I've gotten so accustomed to using Eagle now. It has a built-in CAM
processor. Then for a separate check before release, I use GC-Prevue
from Graphicode. I'm running the free package which does little more
than view files. For $495 (which I haven't been able to get), you can
convert from DXF to gerber. Would need one of our autocad guys to
convert from dwg to dfx for me.

There used to be many routines to do this conversion. I have not used
this one but you might want to take a look before spending lots of money:

http://www.sonnetsoftware.com/support/sonnet-suites/dxftogerber.html

Thank you for jogging my memory.
A blessed Christmas and New Year*
Oppie

* if Christmas is not your thing, feel free to wish me otherwise. It's
time we stopped secularizing religious holidays in the interest of
political correctness.

Amen!

Merry Christmas to everyone.

 

[Oppie]

There used to be many routines to do this conversion. I have not used
this one but you might want to take a look before spending lots of money:

http://www.sonnetsoftware.com/support/sonnet-suites/dxftogerber.html

Hmmm... Tried it and it gave me results, just not good ones. Had tried an
autocad DXF file and it gave all the polygons a virtual wedgie. I'll play
with it a bit more after the holidays.
Had found several "freeware converters" that turned out to be just demos
and not the real deal. Didn't even try to install them.

All the best,
Oppie (aka Bob Oppenheimer)

 

[Baron]

Oppie Inscribed thus:

CAM350! YES! Company owner who did all the cad work previously before
turning it over to me, did it mostly in Autocad. He's now largely
retired and doesn't even have CAD on his computer anymore. I vaguely
remember that he had a copy of CAM350 with a dongle. I'll check to see
if he will transfer it to me.

I've gotten so accustomed to using Eagle now. It has a built-in CAM
processor. Then for a separate check before release, I use GC-Prevue
from Graphicode. I'm running the free package which does little more
than view files. For $495 (which I haven't been able to get), you can
convert from DXF to gerber. Would need one of our autocad guys to
convert from dwg to dfx for me.

Draftsight will do that for free !

 

[Oppie]

Draftsight will do that for free !

Thank you! I'll check it out. The Sonnet DXF to Gerber converter did not run
properly with the files I tried it on.

Oppie

 

[Oppie]

Draftsight will do that for free !

I thought at first that Draftsight would export gerbers. It does not but it
will save files in a number of formats. Perhaps one of these formats will
work better with the Sonnet DXF to Gerber converter.

Draftsight's print interface is more intuitive than Autocad TrueVue (which
is a screwy viewer). It's going to need some more play time.