little help (export pcb)

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francesco81rs said:
. . . The PCB is in .fly format and I need instead the gerber format . . . .
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The file hosted on your link has an extension of ".lay", not ".fly". The "Sprint-Layout" program creates *.lay files. I don't have a program that can open Sprint-Layout files. I would be surprised if any program except Sprint can open *.lay files - it's not a very popular layout program.

Is there anybody on the Forum who has Sprint-Layout, and can help here?

Dale

p.s. - It's nearly impossible to argue with the folks at KiCAD when they say that no hardware design can legitimately claim to be "open source" if it is documented with proprietary-format files.

For decades, files using the Gerber family of formats were the de-facto standard for conveying PCB layout information between the design function and the fabrication function. In theory you can create a PCB layout while working exclusively in Gerber files, but in practice that's a bit like composing a novel using hand-set lead type. Or perhaps a better analogy is that Gerber files are a bit like the assembly-language representation of a complex computer program. Gerber files give very specific, detailed, instructions of how to fabricate a PCB from raw materials but tell you very little about the design of the PCB, or the circuit it implements.
 
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