Gerber Rip command line options

September 25,2013

gbr_rip is an excellent tool to convert Gerber RS274X files to various raster formats such as TIFF, BMP, Postscript, and PDF.
The page below summarizes all the command line options available with gbr_rip.

gbv_rip command line options

stevedb@asmsc45:/home/cad/gbrip/cisco$ /home/cad/gbrip/bin/gbv_rip -h
gbrplt gerber_files [options]
  where options are:
   -DPI#    use # DPI value
   -sX      scale data by factor of X, default X=0 (fitting)
   -autosz  auto-compute media size (scale must be non-zero)
   -r90     plot in portrait orientation
   -ares#   specify # degree arc resolution
   -asag#   specify # for chord error
   -mV#     limit output polygon to maximum # vertices (max #=8150)
   -outline plot in outline mode
   -q       plot in quiet mode
   -mda     MDA Mode
   -274x    RS274X Mode
   -apt:A   use A as the aperture file
   -cfg:C   use C as the default plot config file
   -p:S     use S as working directory
   -noplot  disable plotting operation
   -stat    display plot timing info
   -nostat  do not display plot timing info
   -server  used as print server (floating license not allowed)
   -plot J  use J as plot job information file
   -file F  generate plot output to file F

   -ext     query data extents (no plotting)
   -extinch query data extents in inch (no plotting)
   -extmm   query data extents in mm (no plotting)

   -inch    given window extents are in inches
   -mm      given window extents are in mm
   -mirr:   auto means use MI mass parameter in file while
                         x, y, xy respectively mean to mirror across
                         y, x, or both
   -wplot x0,y0 x1,y1  plot data within the given window

gbrplt v6.56 (Aug 20,2009) (rcs 1.282) KEY DEMO
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