Skip to content

Unknown RS-274X extension found #249

@ldoolitt

Description

@ldoolitt

Recent versions of KiCad (>=8?) have started creating Gerber files that have RS-274X extensions %TA% %TD% %TF% %TO%.
When loaded by gerbv, the rendering is still perfectly fine, but it fills the console and the Messages pane with complaints like

Unknown RS-274X extension found %TF% at line 3 in file "/redacted/test1.gbr"

I found a pretty small example that I attach here: zest-Edge_Cuts.txt

The only mention of this issue I could find online was in an out-of-the-way place:
X2 extensions should be ignored, by react66, Aug 23, 2021
alyoshin/gerbv-dxf-builded#1
Note the date: over four years ago! Maybe this issue will be better at reaching the right people.
In that issue, react66 included the helpful comment:

Gerber X2 has adds four new commands (TF, TA, TO and TD) to attach attributes to a Gerber file. All pre-existing commands remain unchanged.

I can confirm the effect on the Debian-shipped gerbv versions 2.9.6 and 2.10.0.
I haven't yet built gerbv from github source to find out if it silently got improved.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions