Drill2Gerber

Drill2Gerber is a command-line tool to convert drill files to Gerber.

It implements a small subset of the Excellon drill format, but has been tested successfully on drill files generated by FreePCB, PCAD, KiCad, Microchip, Mentor Graphics, Autodesk Circuits and Altium Designer.

Installation:

Download and run Drill2Gerber.exe. This will display the copyright and usage information.

Source:

The source is available from the git repository and GitHub.

Changes:

2022-01-23

Added support for G85 codes (used to route lines)
Added support for Repeat Hole commands
Added support for extracting tool sizes from the comments

2020-10-12

Now returns "3" when the format is not specified in the drill file header.

2019-02-17

Fixed tool definitions to support drill files that include feed-rate and other information.
Added support for the ;FILE_FORMAT=2:5 comment, which is non-standard, but used by Altium Designer.

2017-08-19

Implemented circular routing

2017-08-09

Bumped the version to 1.1
Added linear routing support

2016-12-15

Generalised the coordinate format
Added KiCad support
Moved the code to SourceForge git

2016-10-09

Added support for Drill files produced by Autodesk Circuits

2015-01-23

Removed pause upon successful conversion
Fixed bug for Mentor Graphics produced drill files.

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