Release notesĢ638 Carriage Return characters are no longer displayed as boxes in Schematic Text boxesĢ645 Text in the heading of the 'Update From Library' dialog is no longer editableĥ333 Redirection feature now working correctly, parameter values are displayed in the Navigator panel and passed to the PCB and BOMĥ337 The default electrical grid has been reduced to 4 to stop perpendicular wire segments that are placed between 2 adjacent pins creating a short. The following list presents a complete list of updates and enhancements made for Service Pack 1 for Altium Designer. Draw the board outline there with a line width set the same as your milling tool (2.0mm) generate the gerber output with the rest and set the file extension what the cirqwizard expect it to be (*.Altium Designer 2004 SP1 highlights include significant updates to Protel’s autorouting technology, and the addition of Spartan-3 device support to Nexar.
So the way to go is to dedicate one of the mechanical layers for board outline. For outline milling the cirqoid expect not excellon but gerber (surprisingly enough). But the output is excellon for a router (as it should be).
Altium is too smart and can generate milling/routing files from board shape. Just rename the file extensions manually in your project output directory (or write a one click script) You don't need to use it for your purpose. Camstatic is a general gerber manipulation program. If you look closely all the dialogue setting you are presented here you have had set in the altium export. Since you are just generating the gerber files again from another program (CAMstatic) And it cannot do any good just introduce some error. Steps 3,4,5,6,7,8 is completely unnecessary. Same for the NC drill files export (step 10.) select milimeters, highest resolution and the the "keep leading and trailing zeros" option.įor some crazy reason (or bug in altium/cirqwizard) if I don't do the above steps I cant seem to get the drill file align with the gerbers. be sure to always select milimeters and the highest resolution!Īlso on the last tab (Advanced) for gerber export check the "keep leading and trailing zeros". The guide you posted is overcomplicated in my opinion.Įxporting the already generated gerbers and nc files from CAMstatic just for renaming the extension is over the top :) Since then I made several boards without an issue. It took me a good day of experimenting to get it working as expected. I do use Altium to generate the gerbers and nc drill files.
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