Viewing_Altium_BRD_and_Gerber_Files - david-macmahon/wiki_convert_test GitHub Wiki

Altium provides a pretty powerful and free program to view the entire design database for users running Windows. The current version may be found at: AltiumViewer or more generally Altium Downloads

There are all sorts of free programs to view the Gerber files on a machine running Windows. For example:

• Pentalogix ViewMate works just fine http://www.pentalogix.com/viewmate.php

This author has less experience looking at Gerber files on unix based systems. One utility that seems to work fine on debian systems is the gerbv package.

• sudo apt-get instll gerbv
• sudo apt-get install libcairo2
• sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dbg
• sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
• sudo apt-get install libcairo2-doc
• sudo apt-get install gtk+2.0 # this was 700 MBytes!

from within gerbv directory

• ./configure
• make
• sudo make install
• make installcheck

gerbv is hard coded to look in /usr/lib/ only. So....

• cd /usr/lib
• then as su
  • # ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgerbv.so.1 libgerbv.so.1

gerbv