Merge Drill Layers and Purge Drill Table of Unused Tools

Posted about 1 hour ago by Simon Garrison

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Merge Drill Tools:
During import FAB3000 automatically merges all Drill/NC tools. 

To merge layers, there are several different approaches:
1. Use the command Merge Layers.  Menu: Edit > Layers > Merge...

or

1. Select All Drill objects (in the editor).
2. Go to menu:  Edit > Properties...,
3. Change the Layer pulldown (all selected objects will now exist on the selected layer).

or 

1. Select all Drill objects (in the editor).
2. Go to menu: Edit > Copy to Layers.. (and create a new layer for the select objects)
  


Purge Drill Table of unused:

1. Go to menu:  Setup > NC Tools table....

2. For any unused NC Tool, set the tool size (i.e diameter) to 0 

Note: Any NC tool that is unused and 0 diameter will be omitted/purged (i.e unused) when exporting NC Drill, etc.

Note: Unused tools descriptions in the NC Drill file headers typically have no negative-effect (and ignored) during PCB production.  But it defiantly helps to provide optimized PCB data to production.




Thanks again.

Best regards,

Simon

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