tracespacegerber plotter
Streaming Gerber / NC drill layer image plotter
A printed circuit board Gerber and drill file plotter. Implemented as a Node transform stream that consumes objects output by gerber-parser and outputs PCB image objects.
Part of the tracespace collection of PCB visualization tools.
install
npm install --save gerber-plotter
# or
yarn add gerber-plotter
gerber-parser is a peer dependency, so you probably want to install it too:
npm install --save gerber-parser
# or
yarn add gerber-parser
Or, use a script tag:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/gerber-plotter@^4.0.0/dist/gerber-plotter.min.js"></script>
<script>
// global variable gerberPlotter now available
var plotter = gerberPlotter()
</script>
example
var fs = require('fs')
var gerberParser = require('gerber-parser')
var gerberPlotter = require('gerber-plotter')
var parser = gerberParser()
var plotter = gerberPlotter()
plotter.on('warning', function(w) {
console.warn('plotter warning at line ' + w.line + ': ' + w.message)
})
plotter.once('error', function(e) {
console.error('plotter error: ' + e.message)
})
fs.createReadStream('/path/to/gerber/file.gbr')
.pipe(parser)
.pipe(plotter)
.on('data', function(obj) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(obj))
})
To run this module in a browser, it should be bundled with a tool like browserify or webpack. If you are using the script tag installation method instead, there will be a global variable gerberPlotter available after you have included gerber-plotter.min.js.
api
See API.md