looking for a free Gerber DRC software

Hi,

I am looking for a free software to perform some basic DRC on the RS-274-X files: the spacing between the contiguous areas etc.

(This would not be a huge programming excercise, and I am sure somebody has already done it..)

Thanks for any help.

-- Andy

There's a Gerber viewer with the Kicad free PCB suite. I don't know if it can measure, but it's open source so perhaps you could add it...

Paul Burke

See my notes and links to some 60 ECAD programs at

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Apart from Kicad that Paul mentioned, several have Gerber viewer facilities.

Terry Pinnell Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Try GC-Prevue from

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It is a freebee Gerber viewer and measurer. I use it all the time for checking gerber output after a board layout. RS-274X too.

boB

Thanks to everyone for the pointers / suggestions.

The Gerber viewers that I've tried did not have the DRC on Gerber function.

I've found CAM350 which performed fine.

- Andy