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Aperture Macros
===============
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.parse.ApertureMacro
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.parse.GenericMacros
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.expression.Expression
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.expression.UnitExpression
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.expression.ConstantExpression
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.expression.VariableExpression
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.expression.OperatorExpression
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.Primitive
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.Circle
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.VectorLine
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.CenterLine
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.Polygon
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.Thermal
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.Outline
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.aperture_macros.primitive.Comment
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Apertures in Gerbonara
======================
Gerbonara maps all standard Gerber apertures to subclasses of the Aperture_ class. These subclasses: CircleAperture_,
RectangleAperture_, ObroundAperture_ and PolygonAperture_. Aperture macro instantiations get mapped to
ApertureMacroInstance_ (also an Aperture_ subclass).
All Aperture_ subclasses have these common attributes:
`hole_dia`
float with diameter of hole. 0 for no hole.
`hole_rect_h`
float or None. If not None, specifies a rectangular hole of size `hole_dia * hole_rect_h` instead of a round hole.
`unit`
LengthUnit_ for all of this aperture's fields
`attrs`
GerberX2 attributes of this aperture. Note that this will only contain aperture attributes, not file attributes.
File attributes are stored in the `attrs` of GerberFile_.
`original_number`
int of aperture index this aperture had when it was read from the Gerber file. This field is purely informational
since apertures are de-duplicated and re-numbered when writing a Gerber file. For `D10`, this field would be `10`.
If you programmatically create a new aperture, you do not have to set this.
`rotation`
Aperture rotation in radians counter-clockwise. This field is not part of the Gerber standard. Standard rectangle
and obround apertures do not support rotation. Gerbonara converts rotated apertures into aperture macros during
Gerber export as necessary.
CircleAperture
--------------
This is the only one valid for use in Line_ or Arc_.
Attributes:
Common attributes:
`hole_dia`, `hole_rect_h`, `unit`, `attrs`, and `original_number`. `rotation` is present but has no effect in
CircleAperture_.
`diameter`
float with diameter of aperture in the unit from the aperture's `unit` field.
RectangleAperture
-----------------
Common attributes:
`hole_dia`, `hole_rect_h`, `unit`, `attrs`, `original_number`, and `rotation`
`w`, `h`
floats with width or height of rectangle in units from the aperture's `unit` field.
ObroundAperture
---------------
Aperture whose shape is the convex hull of two circles of equal radii.
Common attributes:
`hole_dia`, `hole_rect_h`, `unit`, `attrs`, `original_number`, and `rotation`
`w`, `h`
floats with width and height of bounding box of obround. The smaller one of these will be the diameter of the
obround's ends. If `w` is larger, the result will be a landscape obround. If `h` is larger, it will be a portrait
obround.
PolygonAperture
---------------
Aperture whose shape is a regular n-sided polygon (e.g. pentagon, hexagon etc.).
Common attributes:
`hole_dia`, `unit`, `attrs`, `original_number`, and `rotation`. `hole_rect_h` is not supported in PolygonAperture_
since the Gerber spec does not list it.
`diameter`
float with diameter of circumscribing circle, i.e. the circle that all the polygon's corners lie on.
`n_vertices`
int with number of corners of this polygon. Three for a triangle, four for a square, five for a pentagon etc.
ApertureMacroInstance
---------------------
One instance of an aperture macro. An aperture macro defined with an `AM` statement can be instantiated by multiple `AD`
aperture definition statements using different parameters. An ApertureMacroInstance_ is one such binding of a macro to a
particular set of parameters. Note that you still need an ApertureMacroInstance_ even if your ApertureMacro_ has no
parameters since an ApertureMacro_ is not an Aperture_ by itself.
Attributes:
Common attributes:
`unit`, `attrs`, `original_number`, and `rotation`. ApertureMacroInstance_ does not support `hole_dia` or
`hole_rect_h`. `rotation` is handled by re-writing the ApertureMacro_ during export.
`macro`
The ApertureMacro_ that is bound here
`parameters`
list of ints or floats with the parameters for this macro. The first element is `$1`, the second is `$2` etc.
ExcellonTool
------------
Special Aperture_ subclass for use in ExcellonFile_. Similar to CircleAperture_, but does not have `hole_dia` or
`hole_rect_h`, and has additional `plated` and `depth_offset` attributes.
Common attributes:
`unit`, `original_number`
`plated`
bool or None. True if this hole/slot is copper-plated, False if not, and None if it is undefined or unknown.
`depth_offset`
float with Excellon depth offset for this hole or slot. If the fab supports this, this can be used to create
features that do not go all the way through the board.
Aperture generalization
-----------------------
Gerbonara supports rotating both individual graphic objects and whole files. Alas, this was not a use case that was
intended when the Gerber format was developed. We can rotate lines, arcs, and regions alright by simply rotatint all of
their points. Flashes are where things get tricky: Individual flashes cannot be rotated at all in any widely supported
way. There are some newer additions to the standard, but I would be surprised if any of the cheap board houses
understand those. The only way to rotate a flash is to rotate the aperture, not the flash. For cirlces, this is a no-op.
For polygons, we simply change the angle parameter. However, for rectangles and obrounds this gets tricky: Neither one
supports a rotation parameter. The only way to rotate these is to convert them to an aperture macro, then rotate that.
This behavior of using aperture macros for general rotated rectangles is common behavior among CAD tools. Gerbonara adds
a non-standard `rotation` attribute to all apertures except CircleAperture_ and transparently converts rotated instances
to the appropriate ApertureMacroInstance_ objects while it writes out the file. Be aware that this may mean that an
object that in memory has a RectangleAperture_ might end up with an aperture macro instance in the output Gerber file.

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Gerbonara API concepts
======================
High-level overview
-------------------
Gerbonara's API is split into three larger sub-areas:
**File API**
This is where the main user interface classes live: :py:class:`.LayerStack` (for opening a directory/zip full of
files, and automatically matching file roles based on filenames), :py:class:`.GerberFile` (for opening an individual
RS-274X file), :py:class:`.ExcellonFile` (for Excellon drill files) and :py:class:`.Netlist` (for IPC-356 netlist
files).
**Graphic Object API**
This is where the nuts and bolts inside a :py:class:`.GerberFile` or :py:class:`.ExcellonFile` such as
:py:class:`~.graphic_objects.Line`, :py:class:`~.graphic_objects.Arc`, :py:class:`.Region` and :py:class:`.Flash`
live. Everything in here has explicit unit support. A part of the Graphic object API is the :doc:`Aperture
API<apertures>`.
**Graphic Primitive API**
This is a rendering abstraction layer. Graphic objects can be converted into graphic primitives for rendering.
Graphic primitives are unit-less. Units are converted during :py:class:`.GraphicObject` to
:py:class:`.GraphicPrimitive` rendering.
The hierarchy works like: A :py:class:`.LayerStack` contains either a :py:class:`.GerberFile`, an
:py:class:`.ExcellonFile` or a :py:class:`.Netlist` for each layer. Each of these file objects contains a number of
:py:class:`.GraphicObject` instances such as :py:class:`~.graphic_objects.Line` or :py:class:`.Flash`. These objects can
easily be changed or deleted, and new ones can be created programmatically. For rendering, each of these objects as well
as file objects can be rendered into :py:class:`.GraphicPrimitive` instances using
:py:meth:`.GraphicObject.to_primitives`.
Apertures
---------
Gerber apertures are represented by subclasses of :py:class:`.Aperture` such as :py:class:`.CircleAperture`. An instance
of an aperture class is stored inside the :py:attr:`~.graphic_objects.Line.aperture` field of a
:py:class:`.GraphicObject`. :py:class:`.GraphicObject` subclasses that have an aperture are
:py:class:`~.graphic_objects.Line`, :py:class:`~.graphic_objects.Arc` and :py:class:`.Flash`. You can create and
duplicate :py:class:`.Aperture` objects as needed. They are automatically de-duplicated when a Gerber file is written.
Gerbonara has full aperture macro support. Each aperture macro is represented by an :py:class:`.parse.ApertureMacro`
instance. Like apertures, :py:class:`.parse.ApertureMacro` instances are de-duplicated when writing a file. An aperture
macro-based aperture definition is represented by the :py:class:`.ApertureMacroInstance` subclass of
:py:class:`.Aperture`. An aperture macro instance basically binds an aperture macro to a given set of macro parameters.
Note that even if a macro does not accept any parameters you still cannot directly stick it into the aperture field of a
graphic object, and instead need to wrap it inside an :py:class:`.ApertureMacroInstance` first.
Excellon vs. Gerber
-------------------
Excellon files use the same graphic object classes as Gerber files. Inside an Excellon file, only
:py:class:`~.graphic_objects.Line`, :py:class:`~.graphic_objects.Arc` and :py:class:`.Flash` are allowed. Lines and arcs map to milled
Excellon slots. Excellon drills are mapped to :py:class:`.Flash` instances.
Excellon drills are internally handled using a special :py:class:`.ExcellonTool` aperture class. When you put a
:py:class:`.GraphicObject` from an Excellon file into a Gerber file, these become circular apertures. You can also take
objects from an Excellon file and put them into a Gerber file if they have a simple :py:class:`.CircleAperture`. Copying
objects with other apertures into an Excellon file will raise an error when saving.

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# Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
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# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
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from pathlib import Path
import sys
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copyright = '2022, Jan Götte'
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exclude_patterns = []
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# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
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Layers and Files
================
Gerbonara currently supports three file types: RS-274-X Gerber as `specified by Ucamco
<https://www.ucamco.com/en/gerber>`:py:class:`._` through :py:class:`.GerberFile`, Excellon/XNC through
:py:class:`.ExcellonFile`, and IPC-356 netlists through :py:class:`.Netlist`.
Usually, a PCB is sent to a manufacturer as a bundle of several of these files. Such a bundle of files (each of which is
either a :py:class:`.GerberFile` or an :py:class:`.ExcellonFile`) is represented by :py:class:`.LayerStack`.
:py:class:`.LayerStack` contains logic to automatcally
recognize a wide variety of CAD tools from file name and syntactic hints, and can automatically match all files in a
folder to their appropriate layers.
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.layers.LayerStack
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.rs274x.GerberFile
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.excellon.ExcellonFile
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.ipc356.Netlist
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Graphic Primitives
==================
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.GraphicPrimitive
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.Circle
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.Obround
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.ArcPoly
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.Line
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.Arc
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.Rectangle
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_primitives.RegularPolygon
:members:

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Welcome to gerbonara's documentation!
=====================================
Gerbonara is a library to read, modify and write PCB manufacturing files such as Gerber, Excellon and IPC-356 through a
pythonic API. Gerbonara can open a folder of manufacturing files, and parse file names and metadata to figure out which
file contains what. Gerbonara is tested using an extensive library of real-world example files from CAD tools including
KiCAD, Altium, Eagle, Allegro, gEDA, Fritzing, Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS, and Target3001!.
Gerbonara's API is built on two principles:
**Meaningful, object-oriented API**
Gerbonara abstracts away the details of the underlying file format such as tool indices, coordinate notation and
graphical state, and presents meaningful "graphical objects" such as a :py:class:`~primitives.Line`,
:py:class:`~primitives.Arc`, or :py:class:`.Region` through its API. These objects can be easily created,
manipulated or deleted from code without breaking anything else. You can even copy graphical objects between files,
and Gerbonara will automatically convert coordinate format, units etc. for you. :py:class:`.GerberFile` and
:py:class:`.ExcellonFile` use the same types of :doc:`graphic objects <object-api>`, so objects can be directly
copied between file types without conversion.
**Unit-safety**
Gerbonara embeds physical :py:class:`.LengthUnit` information in all objects. The high-level API such as
:py:meth:`.LayerStack.merge` or :py:meth:`.GerberFile.offset` accepts arguments with an explicitly given unit and
automatically converts them as needed. Objects can be copied between :py:class:`.GerberFile` instances and unit
conversion will be handled transparently in the background.
Gerbonara was started as an extensive refactoring of the pcb-tools_ and pcb-tools-extension_ packages. Both of these
have statement-based APIs, that is, they parse input files into one python object for every line in the file. This means
that when saving files they can recreate the input file almost byte by byte, but manipulating a file by changing
statements without breaking things is *hard*.
Gerbonara powers gerbolyze_, a tool for converting SVG_ vector graphics files into Gerber, and embedding SVG_ into
existing Gerber files exported from a normal PCB tool for artistic purposes.
Features
========
* File I/O
* Gerber, Excellon (drill file), IPC-356 (netlist) read and write
* supports file-level operations: offset, rotate, merge for all file types
* Modification API (:py:class:`GraphicObject`)
* Rendering API (:py:class:`GraphicPrimitive`)
* SVG export
* Full aperture macro support, including transformations (offset, rotation)
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Contents:
api-concepts
file-api
object-api
apertures
aperture-macros
graphic-primitive-api
utilities
Quick Start
===========
Development
===========
Gerbonara is developed on Gitlab under the gerbolyze org:
https://gitlab.com/gerbolyze/gerbonara/
A mirror of the repository can be found at:
https://git.jaseg.de/gerbonara
Our issue tracker is also on Gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/gerbolyze/gerbonara/-/issues
With Gebronara, we aim to support as many different format variants as possible. If you have a file that Gerbonara can't
open, please file an issue on our issue tracker. Even if Gerbonara can open all your files, for regression testing we
are very interested in example files generated by any CAD or CAM tool that is not already on the list of supported
tools.
Supported CAD Tools
===================
Compatibility with the output of these CAD tools is tested as part of our test suite using example files generated by
these tools. Note that not all of these tools come with default Gerber file naming rules, so YMMV if your Gerbers use
some non-standard naming convention.
* Allegro
* Altium
* Diptrace
* Eagle
* EasyEDA
* Fritzing
* gEDA
* KiCAD
* pcb-rnd
* Siemens / Mentor Graphics Xpedition
* Siemens / Mentor Graphics PADS
* Target 3001!
* Upverter
* Soon: Zuken CADSTAR and CR-8000
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`
.. _pcb-tools: https://github.com/opiopan/pcb-tools-extension
.. _pcb-tools-extension: https://github.com/curtacircuitos/pcb-tools/issues
.. _gerbolyze: https://github.com/jaseg/gerbolyze
.. _SVG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics

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Graphic Objects
===============
Graphic objects are the lego blocks a gerbonara :py:class:`gerbonara.rs274x.GerberFile` or
:py:class:`gerbonara.excellon.ExcellonFile` is built from. They are stored in the file's
:py:attr:`gerbonara.rs274x.GerberFile.objects` list. You can directly manipulate that list from code.
There are four graphic object types: :py:class:`gerbonara.graphic_objects.Flash`,
:py:class:`gerbonara.graphic_objects.Line`, :py:class:`gerbonara.graphic_objects.Arc`, and
:py:class:`gerbonara.graphic_objects.Region` . All of them are derived from
:py:class:`gerbonara.graphic_objects.GraphicObject`.
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_objects.GraphicObject
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_objects.Flash
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_objects.Line
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_objects.Arc
:members:
.. autoclass:: gerbonara.graphic_objects.Region
:members:
.. _pcb-tools: https://github.com/opiopan/pcb-tools-extension
.. _gerbolyze: https://github.com/jaseg/gerbolyze
.. _svg-flatten: https://github.com/jaseg/gerbolyze/tree/main/svg-flatten

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Utilities
=========