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Originally Posted by Slothie
How hard was it to write the code to output the Gerbers? I was thinking of a project to create Gerbers from photos or scans of PCBs but was scared a bit by the Gerbers bit.
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Very easy for this but probably not for what you want to do, because it's a vector format. The photoplotter projects an image of a selected aperture onto light-sensitive film. You can either flash the light on and off again to create a pad, or draw lines by moving with the light on. But it does not lend itself at all well to rasterised images!
There will be a disc image to play with once I have put together a few more component footprints (and maybe an improved tool for creating them).