gerber parser

Streaming Gerber/drill file parser

A printed circuit board Gerber and drill file parser. Implemented as a Node transform stream that takes a Gerber text stream and emits objects to be consumed by some sort of PCB plotter.

Part of the tracespace collection of PCB visualization tools.

install

npm install --save gerber-parser
# or
yarn add gerber-parser

Or, use a script tag:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/gerber-parser@^4.0.0/dist/gerber-parser.min.js"></script>
<script>
  // global variable gerberParser now available
  var parser = gerberParser()
</script>

example

var fs = require('fs')
var gerberParser = require('node-gerber-parser')

var parser = gerberParser()

parser.on('warning', function(w) {
  console.warn('warning at line ' + w.line + ': ' + w.message)
})

fs.createReadStream('/path/to/gerber/file.gbr')
  .pipe(parser)
  .on('data', function(obj) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(obj))
  })

To run this module in a browser, it should be bundled with a tool like browserify or webpack. If you are using the script tag installation method instead, there will be a global variable gerberParser available after you have included gerber-parser.min.js.

api

See API.md