Can't open gerber files from EAGLE

[João Pinhal]

Hello, so I am very new to PCB milling and I was trying to generate g-code for my CNC with FlatCAM. I have tried versions 8.4, 8.5 and 8.9 and in 2 different computers and I can’t get FlatCAM to open my gerber files. However, other gerber viewers can open it fine, so it is not the gerber files the cause of this problem. When I try to open them in FlatCAM, nothing happens, I have tried multiple CAM processors jobs and nothing. Also I have searched around but I didn’t find anyone with my problem and it is getting frustrating.

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Thank you for your help in advance,

João Pinhal

[Marius Stanciu]

Hello João,

Can you post the Gerber file that show the problems? You can post a Dropbox, MEGA link or upload it to www.wetransfer.com and post the link here. Or you can attach it here by editing the original post.
Without something to work on it is quite problematic to debug the issues. FlatCAM beta should be able to open it without a problem.

Best regards,

Marius

[João Pinhal]

I have tried all the gerber files in the “GerberFiles” folder to no avail.

Thank you for helping

[Marius Stanciu]

Hello João,

In FlatCAM beta 8.994 your files load without a problem, except the solderpaste Gerber files but those are empty, no geometry.

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[João Pinhal]

Well that is the only version I couldn’t get installed, I installed WinPython, Shapely and RTree but when I do python FlatCAM.py it had a bunch of modules that weren’t installed, I installed some of them using pip, but I got stuck in the module svg, no matter how much I tried to I it always said it wasn’t installed, I suspect that I’m not using the python of WinPy, but I don’t have the knowledge to know that. Could you try with version 8.4 or 8.5?

Edit: I said I tried with version 8.9 but I got confused with the versions.

Edit2: So I found that the module was called svg.path, I installed it, but there are still a lot of dependencies that didn’t get installed

Edit3: I finally got it working, thank you for your help, I suggest you make this process of installing a little more friendly ahah, but thanks

[Marius Stanciu]

Why are you bothering to run it from sources? Since you mention WinPython you are obviously on Windows where there are Flatcam beta WIndows installers posted in the Download section (actually a link to them https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/downloads/FlatCAM_beta_8.994_installers.txt).

When an installer is used you no longer need to install the Python toolchain, everything is packed in….

Could you try with version 8.4 or 8.5?

Unfortunately I do not develop on the old version 8.4/8.5 nor do I use them …

[João Pinhal]

Since you mention WinPython you are obviously on Windows where there are Flatcam beta WIndows installers posted in the Download section (actually a link to them https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/downloads/FlatCAM_beta_8.994_installers.txt).

Ok, this makes more sense, since it was a txt I probably didn’t even consider it as the right one. In the installation, it does say “Download the installer“ but when I read this I was looking for the .exe and didn’t find it, my mistake. Thanks anyway.

[João Pinhal]

Installed 8.994 beta version

[Marius Stanciu]

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