I'm now running gEDA PCB on Windows and there is an easier way to convert the layout to DXF than the procedure described in my (much!) earlier post.
1. Export the layout from PCB to Postscript with all layers in one file (i.e. "multiple files" NOT checked).
2. Open the .ps file with GSView. Make a note of the page numbers for the outline and top assembly.
3. Select "File" "Extract..." and select the outline and top assembly layers and save those layers to a separate file (e.g. pcb.assembly.ps).
4. Convert the .ps file to DXF with pstoedit (http://www.pstoedit.net) using "pstoedit -f dxf pcb.assembly.ps pcb.dxf".
Note that my version of GSView seems to display the layer/page names incorrectly in the "Select Pages" dialog when extracting (that's why I said to note the pages numbers in step 2 above).
Also, if you have components on both sides of the board it is more useful to export each side as a separate DXF file, because there is no height information and the top and bottom assemblies do not line up correctly (they are rotated 180 degrees from each other in my file).
Thursday, February 2, 2017
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