possible feature: allignment for CAM data

[zanglerecke]

Last Year (just some days ago) i had to compare some old CAM output from the manufacturer, and the one of the adapted design.

The Task was clear: just align both correct layers and compare…

the compare of the output of the old layout and the new one was easy… they came aligned / I exported them with the same settings.

But from the Manufacturer we get the whole Frame.

So the Idea: just mark everything on a specific Layer, and then select two identical objects and snap them together. → everything else should follow the same Distance.

Maybe i just did not see this function, but if it is missing, it could have made my life much more easy.

By the way…. Thanks for your beautiful AWESOME tool.

[klayoutmatthias]

Thanks for this nice feedback :)

For the feature request: you mean those objects are on two different layouts? Or different layers of the same layout?

Matthias

[zanglerecke]

"both"... i have separate files for every layer of my PCB....i import them as separate layers. one layer = one Gerber-File. as i have e.g. 2 CAM-exports=2PCBs with e.g. 8 layers each.

so i have totally 16 layers but 2 designs with 8 layers each. normally all 8 layers "should" be aligned, but sometimes they are not. (very old Data)

on nearly every layout are fiducials .. circles to align the ?automatic assembly line? (German: Bestückungsautomaten)

and sometimes those layers are mirrored ... (e.g. for Backside, or Masking layers)

[demisjohn]

Seems like you could write a script to do this, which then gives you flexibility of which layers/layouts you want to be transformed by the Move command. I'm not sure how you tell a script which particular objects to align though, but iterating through a layout's Layers and moving all objects sounds pretty straightforward (although I haven't done it myself).