As easy example to use PCB-Investigator as library here the code to load a gerber layer and count elements on it. Its important to add the reference of PCB-Investigator first and add using PCBI.Automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is the example code in C Sharp and VB:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As easy example to use PCB-Investigator as library here the code to load a gerber layer and count elements on it. Its important to add the reference of PCB-Investigator first and add using PCBI.Automation. Here is the example code in C Sharp and VB: download VB download C# download C++<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":246,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcb-investigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\/\/\/ <summary>\n \/\/\/ Create an overview how much elements on one gerberlayer.\n \/\/\/ <\/summary>\n private static void CreateGerberReport()\n {\n IAutomation.IAutomationInit();\n \n \/\/create a window to handle your actions\n IPCBIWindow mainWindowPCBI = IAutomation.CreateNewPCBIWindow(false);\n \n \/\/create a directory for ODB++ structure with one step names \"pcb\"\n string jobPath = mainWindowPCBI.CreateNewJobDirectory(@\"C:\\tests\\FirstTestJob\", \"FirstTestJob\", \"pcb\");\n \n \/\/after creating the directory we have to load it\n mainWindowPCBI.LoadODBJob(jobPath);\n \n IStep firstStep = mainWindowPCBI.GetStep(\"pcb\");\n \n \/\/show a dialog to select the first layer from an gerber file\n OpenFileDialog openDLG = new OpenFileDialog();\n openDLG.Title = \"Select gerber file for demo application\";\n if (openDLG.ShowDialog() != System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)\n return;\n \n \/\/we load the gerberdata in one layer and remember the layername\n string gerberLayerName = firstStep.AddGerberLayer(openDLG.FileName, false);\n \n \/\/we need the ILayer object for handling data of the gerberfile\n ILayer GerberLayer = firstStep.GetLayer(gerberLayerName);\n \n \/\/now we make an report of all element types\n \n int counterPads = 0;\n int counterLines = 0;\n int counterArcs = 0;\n int counterOthers = 0;\n foreach (IObject ObjOnGerber in GerberLayer.GetAllLayerObjects())\n {\n if (ObjOnGerber.Type == IObjectType.Pad)\n counterPads++;\n else if (ObjOnGerber.Type == IObjectType.Line)\n counterLines++;\n else if (ObjOnGerber.Type == IObjectType.Arc)\n counterArcs++;\n else\n counterOthers++;\n }\n \n Console.WriteLine(\"Report Gerber File \" + gerberLayerName);\n Console.WriteLine(\"Pads: \" + counterPads.ToString());\n Console.WriteLine(\"Lines: \" + counterLines.ToString());\n Console.WriteLine(\"Arcs: \" + counterArcs.ToString());\n Console.WriteLine(\"Others: \" + counterOthers.ToString());\n }<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"