Software not printing all paths in certain geometry

[jschneck]

I am running version v3.5.0 and noticed that on a recent project the software is deciding not to render tool paths for certain wire geometry. I am unsure of the circumstances in why It’s making this decision. In this circuit there are a lot of paths but only these are not rendering. If I fiddle with the wire geometry, I can get it to be okay.

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[pion]

I have been encountering the same issue consistently in 3.5.0 and it’s been blocking me for weeks. I reached out to Voltera in-app support and it looks like they’re making progress on root cause & fix. It appears to be a Gerber parsing issue. I’ll let them comment on details / status if they’d like to.

[pion]

After receiving further support, I think I may be having a different issue than you are. Maybe this can still help you. Here’s the trick that Mike from Voltera support shared with me. It may or may not be the solution to your issue but it definitely allowed me to have a successful print with an otherwise poorly rendering Gerber.

1. Open the problematic Gerber file in a text editor.
2. Perform a find & replace on the following two patterns: G01*\nX becomes G01X and G02*\nX becomes G02X (the \n is a newline).
3. Save the file and reload it in the Voltera app.

Effectively, you want to delete the asterisk and newline between all G01/2 commands and the start of their subsequent X commands. I’m told that this was getting incorrectly parsed by the Voltera app.

[pion]

Whoops, I misremembered this. The asterisk needs to be removed, too. So:

• G01*\nX ===> G01X
• G02*\nX ===> G02X

[jazozaya]

Hi @pion,

I’m glad Mike was able to resolve your issue. Thank you for posting the solution here as well. It will help other users that are experiencing the same problem.

Regards,