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Hi Craig,
These Gerbers fail the PCBWay upload review (along with others in the series). “Based on your PCB order #W215770ASR17_SBC-85 V1.1.zip
Question:
Your gerber file is unknown for CAM350, we need the RS-274-X format , pls check and revise. Attached pls find the pic to get details.
Solution:
Pls update your file , then re-upload in our system for same order number to get quotation.
Thanks for letting me know. I will check them and try the upload to pcbway. A side note, pcbway will charge extra for the trace gap width on the bus monitor. At jlcpcb these widths and spaces are standard price. The production file for jlcpcb should be in with the gerger’s in the zip build file.
I will post when the files are fixed. If I forget, you can send me an email .. see contact page for email
Regards
Craig
Yea, something funky is going on. i downloaded the bus monitor from this site and then uploaded it to pcbway and it had no trouble. i then did the same for the cpu board and it displayed it but gave a database error. so i uploaded the same files to jlcpcb and the gerber viewer handeled it OK. i also uploaded the jlcpcb production file for either and they displayed OK on the jlcpcb viewer. of course pcbway will reject a jlcpcb production file. was the jlcpcb production file in the zip that you uploaded to pcbway? maybe that throws it off? So i was able to generate a database error on the cpu board at pcbway but the bus monitor gave no errors. i have not tried the others.
in any case, i can email you or you can download the jlcpcb production files which are guaranteed to work since they just used these to build boards.
I uploaded the gerber files for the bus monitor to jlcpcb and get the following: Your upload has finished processing. Enter the project details below and we’ll move on to checking all the individual layers to make sure that they’re correct.
Put in that the board is 125mm x 150mm two layer and choose whatever options you want. It will probably not let you pay until it is manually reviewed.
Of all the pcb fab houses, jlcpcb has the worst gerber viewer. You can confirm that the build files are fine by uploading to the viewer on pcbway or the oshpark. You can also upload the jlcpcb job file rather than the gerbers, t it will still probably not view. After ordering (o4 before if you contact customer support) Jlcpcb will look at the files and approve but they will stil not show up on their viewer. They will also charge you an additional $4 engineering fee. When this happens to me, I ask them to refund the $4 because it is not the customer’s fault their viewer is so terrible. Usually they agree to the refund. You can also put a note with the order to send you full resolution images of the board layers before fabrication if you wish.
Thanks Craig
I submitted all of the boards together in one order they passed the Bus Monitor but failed the CPU for “too much different file” and failed the Backplane for “different file in doc”. I’m starting to think they have no idea what they are doing at jlc, maybe I will go elsewhere for my boards going forward.
The backplane and CPU zip files include the compressed jlcpcb production (*.RAR) file. Take that *.rar out of the zip and JUST submit the rar. not the rar included in the zip with the gerber files.
the *.rar are production files generated by jlcpcb so it should have no trouble getting approved or fabricated.