Gerbv was originally developed as part of the gEDA Project but is now seperatly maintained.
- Gerbv is a viewer for Gerber RS-274X files, Excellon drill files, and CSV pick-and-place files. (Note: RS-274D files are not supported.)
- Gerbv is a native Linux application, and it runs on many common Unix platforms.
- Gerbv is free/open-source software.
- The core functionality of Gerbv is located in a separate library (libgerbv), allowing developers to include Gerber parsing/editing/exporting/rendering into other programs.
- Gerbv is one of the utilities originally affiliated with the gEDA project, an umbrella organization dedicated to producing free software tools for electronic design.
While Gerbv is great software, the development on Source Force has stalled since many years with patches accumulating in the tracker and mailing list.
This fork aims at providing a maintained Gerbv source, containing mostly bugfixes.
To communicate with the original Gerbv developers, please post your query on the following mailing list:
gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
geda-user@delorie.com
This is a friendly fork and I'm willing to invite other people to join the Gerbv GitHub organization.
- Patch #83: Crash may occur on opening/saveing files,
applied in PR#8 as
Commit
242dda
Gerbv has been built and tested on
- Linux (from 2.2)
- NetBSD/i386 (1.4.1)
- NetBSD/Alpha (1.5.1)
- Solaris (5.7 and 5.8)
Gerbv is split into a core functional library and a GUI portion. Developers wishing to incorporate Gerber parsing/editing/exporting/rendering into other programs are welcome to use libgerbv. Complete API documentation for libgerbv is here, as well as many example programs using libgerbv.
Gerbv and all associated files is placed under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2.0. See the toplevel COPYING file for more information.
Programs and associated files are: Copyright 2001, 2002 by Stefan Petersen and the respective original authors (which are listed on the respective files)