output of panelizer is completly grey

[Lopfi]

Hi, im sorry if Im just doing something wrong because I have never done this but when I export my panelized pcbs the image is almost completely grey and even in a gerber-viewer it shows exactly the same.

[Thore-Krug]

Hi,

I wanted to ask which CAD Tool you were using. I used Eagle 9 and ran into the same problem but i was tinkering around today and create a cam file which worked and produced the desired output. I havent ordered it but at first glance it looks all OK.

[Lopfi]

I used fusion 360 electronics. Which settings did you change?

[Thore-Krug]

Im not familiar with Fusion 360 Electronic but since you have a eagle subscription included in fusion360 i would just go over to eagle ( You can link them together ) And use the .cam file i created to export the PCB. For Some reason it exported the Top silkscreen on the first Board fine but not on 2 other Boards I tested thats something i have to take a look into.

Worked on the first board i tried it with.

but not on the second, even though i havent changed anything.
This seems to be a Problem with the Gerber Panelizer though as the direct CAM Output has the Silkscreen on it.

I attach you the .cam file for you to try out.

PCBs without top silkscreen are still better than no pcbs ;)

CAM-Gerber-Panelizer.zip

[Lopfi]

Thanks a lot for the help.
I didn't use eagle but instead imported the cam into Fusion360 and it worked with all my PCBs. But even after trying around I couldn't get the silkscreen to work.

[Thore-Krug]

Yeah im still figuring out why this occurs. It worked once but not on other PCBs. The PCB that worked had no through hole components.. I have to try with another SMD only Board.

[Thore-Krug]

So i saw the the Author of this tool was writing about using Dirty PCBs ( A PCB Fab ) for his Projects. I used the CAM file they provide and it worked including the silkscreen. There is a warning from Eagle about a possible misalignment as this CAM uses a mix of old and new Formats and ignores the PCB STackup ( Which is unimportant though as we dont have controlled impedance with 2 layers which this tool only supports asfaik anyway ).

I just threw a general look over it in ther Gerber Viwer and there isnt something i noticed that is completely wrong.

Seems like the Author optimized for his usecase :-D

Heres the CAM File:
dirt_cheap_dirty_boards.v1.1.cam.zip

[zenandgary]

If you're using KiCad make sure you export your Gerber files with the following option checked otherwise you won't generate the files that Panelizer expects.

[CRImier]

The latest downloadable build (2020) cannot process gerbers from KiCad 6, too - unless you disable aperture macros when plotting the gerbers. If you don't, it might result in exactly this kind of outcome as shown in the OP picture!

Alternatively: install visual studio community edition with desktop C# support, download this repo as a ZIP, open the project as described in README, open the Panelizer subproject, then just press "Start", it will compile you a new Panelizer with proper support for things.