Eagle pro......what is drill.dri file?

[treez]

Hello,

Ive just done gerbers for a 4 layer PCB, and it has produced a file called "drill.dri" -do you know what this file is?

Also, do you know why the "drill" file doesnt show up in the viewmate gerber viewer...i used the "excellon" thing in the CAM job, and selected "drills" and "holes" but nothing shows up in the gerber viewer.
-is the gerber viewer not meant to show the drill file?

 

[keith1200rs]

It is just a tool drill list. As the information is actually in the .drd file (which is the real drill file) it isn't required. That is why a Gerber viewer will ignore it. It is the .drd file you need to load. You might have to manually select the number of decimal places - Gerber viewers seem to make a guess and don't always get it right. To check this, just load the drill file and see what size the Gerber viewer thinks the board is.

Keith

 

[treez]

Thanks, but i done see a .drd. file.

Eagle has chucked out a file called "drill" and a file called "drill.dri"

How do i get the ".drd" file

 

[keith1200rs]

Zip them and upload them here. I am not sure why you don't have the normal extensions but it should be easy to tell what is what.

Keith

- - - Updated - - -

The drill file should look like this:

%
M48
M72
T01C0.0118
T02C0.0197
T03C0.0315
T04C0.0360
T05C0.0394
T06C0.1260
%
T01
X3884Y3205
X5852Y3106
X5951Y4484
X6443Y5862
X6443Y6354
X5951Y6354
X5016Y6649
X4474Y6649
X4671Y7732
X6029Y7870
X6738Y7831
X7132Y7870
X7624Y7535
X8321Y7232
X8608Y7535
X9002Y7535
X10084Y7338
X10626Y7634
X10970Y7535

 

[treez]

thanks, i am afraid to open up the drill file as a text document, because it might then take on the txt icon, and the pcb manufacturers will not like that?

i just tried to upload the drill files and edaboard window says "Invalid file".

 

[keith1200rs]

You need to zip the file to upload it here. It won't do any harm to open the file with notepad.

Keith