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.
Download and run Drill2Gerber.exe. This will display the copyright and usage information.
The source is available from the git repository and GitHub.
- Added support for G85 codes (used to route lines)
- Added support for Repeat Hole commands
- Added support for extracting tool sizes from the comments
- Now returns "3" when the format is not specified in the drill file header.
- 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.
- Implemented circular routing
- Bumped the version to 1.1
- Added linear routing support
- Generalised the coordinate format
- Added KiCad support
- Moved the code to SourceForge git
- Added support for Drill files produced by Autodesk Circuits
- Removed pause upon successful conversion
- Fixed bug for Mentor Graphics produced drill files.