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Whether you're a first-time circuit board designer or you've been doing it for years, you know how difficult it can be to visualize layout, spacing, and relative size in PCB layout software. You might have also experienced that uneasy 'I hope everything is right' feeling when you submit your design files for manufacturing. You're not alone! I've ordered boards with silkscreen text way too small to read, components on the wrong side of the board, and even had my silkscreen and soldermask layers reversed by mistake! Each of these times, the real problem was not having a good view of the design.
I came up with a solution to these problems and designed (with the help of a web developer) an online 3D Gerber viewer that anyone can use. If you're not familiar with Gerber files, they are the files that layout software (like Eagle, Altium, etc) export for manufacturing. They describe everything pertinent about your board that will be required to actually create your PCB.
With the 3D Gerber Viewer, you'll be able to upload your Gerber files and zoom, pan, and rotate your board to have a realistic view of your PCB and all of the layers that it contains. You can use this viewer as you develop your board and also before you ship your final CAD files off to be manufactured.
Using the 3D Gerber Viewer is pretty straightforward, but the following steps will take you through the process and at the end, you'll have some images of your PCB that you can post somewhere or use to show off. More importantly, you'll be confident that your design is exactly what you had in mind!
I came up with a solution to these problems and designed (with the help of a web developer) an online 3D Gerber viewer that anyone can use. If you're not familiar with Gerber files, they are the files that layout software (like Eagle, Altium, etc) export for manufacturing. They describe everything pertinent about your board that will be required to actually create your PCB.
With the 3D Gerber Viewer, you'll be able to upload your Gerber files and zoom, pan, and rotate your board to have a realistic view of your PCB and all of the layers that it contains. You can use this viewer as you develop your board and also before you ship your final CAD files off to be manufactured.
Using the 3D Gerber Viewer is pretty straightforward, but the following steps will take you through the process and at the end, you'll have some images of your PCB that you can post somewhere or use to show off. More importantly, you'll be confident that your design is exactly what you had in mind!
- Good
- Very good tool. Pan and zoom are very easy using the mouse. I like the check boxes to enable/disable the layers as required. However, for some reason, i was not able to save the project and retreive it. Maybe is has something to do with the files being saved on a network drive.
- Simple and easy to use. Dislikes: 1 - no 'mirror' option (e.g. useful when checking text on bottom of board) 2 - non-native file dialog when running on windows. 3 - doesn't handle rotated pads that are created by diptrace 3.0.0.2 4 - no snapping to shape centers, corners, edge centers when measuring which makes measuring inacurate. likes: 1 - easy layer toggle. 2 - good pan/zoom functionality - no scrollbar use required.
- gerbv is a best software I can find. It is great that is open source. All is ok only 2 bugs i can find. If in path where you have gerber files are some character (šćč...) return error message and second some DRL file are not in same dimensions as other gerber files. Wish: Do a better measure distance tools. If is possible to do some tools which snap to object (pads) edge to easy measuring.