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turbocam
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:26:52 GMT

Hi, started to use Flatcam this week and encountered an interessing problem, potentially issue. When using the latest built (using windows installer (8.911,_x_64) my plot area remains empty after loading a gerber file. To make it even stranger, I can create a gcode file with some effort so apparently the Gerber file can be loaded and processed. When using the latest release (8.5), which looks completely different, I get with the same Gerber files immediately a picture iin the plot area?. Using a Windows 10 (64) environment. Any clue on what I'm missing here?

Marius Stanciu
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:58:37 GMT

Hi, Please share the Gerber file so I can have a look and see what's going on. If you can share it in public, you can use a site like: https://nofile.io and paste the link here. Or Dropbox, MEGA link etc. If not, then send it to my email address: marius _ adrian (at) yahoo com. Remove spaces, replace (at) with @, and add the missing point before com.

Marius Stanciu
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:08:29 GMT

Hi, I've loaded the provided file without problems from the first try. https://i.ibb.co/NFy7ySQ/gerber.jpg Which leads me to the following question. Are there any Gerber files that you can see after loading them using the Beta version? Are you seeing a black vertical line (thick bar) in the left side of the Plot Area? It may be possible that you don't fulfill the minimal requirements so you can use FlatCAM beta: you need a graphics card that has support for OpenGL minimum 2.0 version. Which mean a graphic card no older than 10 ... 12 years. Some integrated graphic controller have issues (lack of updated drivers perhaps?).