freeform cutout from gerber outline is not working

[Abhin Raj]

when i trying to generate a free form cutout geometry from a gerber it always creates a rectangular freeform geometry. screenshot attached. i have tried with both windows app version as well as from the source also.

[Abhin Raj]

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[Marius Stanciu]

The Cutout Plugin works on an outline Gerber file. What you have is not an outline since it contain also some other structures (the 4 circles).
Yet there are ways to do what you want.
1. Edit the Gerber object and delete the 4 holes. Save. Use the resulting edited Gerber object as usual in the Cutout plugin.
2. Or, in the Cutout plugin, Advanced Mode, check the Panel and create a Cutout Geometry. If in the resulting Geometry object there are some additional not-required paths, edit the Geometry object and delete those paths.

[Marius Stanciu]

I add in the original post the edited Gerber to show how it should look like.

[Abhin Raj]

with your edited gerber outline it worked, thanks a lot…….is it possible to edit the gerber in flatcam itsef. I tried myself but failed to do so beacuse when iam deleting the circles, the outline is also getting deleted…

[Marius Stanciu]

Yes, I did it in FlatCAM (although using my working version). You need to use the Eraser Tool.

[Marius Stanciu]

Attempt to use the software in a way which it is not supposed to work..