Free Gerber Viewer PCB-Investigator Online Lite now also supporting the Gerber X2 format
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Benefit from many improvements Gerber X2 format as a multi-file standard is offering you in comparison to the common Gerber X1 format. Gerber X2 is a direct, and much advanced, evolvement of the existing Gerber RS-274X standard adding a wide range of extra data for PCB fabrication and assembly.
The format X2 is also supporting attributes, while maintaining compatibility with X1. Attributes play a particularly important role when transferring your PCB data from design to production, as manufacturers require more information than just a simple representation of the design. By providing a standard for describing non-image data, these attributes will help you do this. X2 thus provides additional intelligence. This significantly facilitates the transition from CAD to CAM and may be an important advantage for those unwilling to tackle a major shift in manufacturing file formats, or for fabrication houses with rigid equipment and software.
However, there are no superfluous, production-specific attributes like in other CAM formats. X2 is simple and tidy.
The following information is now clearly defined:
- Pad/Drill types via attributes
- Part/Pin assignments via attributes
- Layer structure
- Layer types
- Net information
- Full support of "BlockApertures”
- Other aperture/object attributes
View of a Gerber X2 file in PCB-Investigator Online Lite