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Diffstat (limited to 'gerbonara/gerber/cam.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | gerbonara/gerber/cam.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gerbonara/gerber/cam.py b/gerbonara/gerber/cam.py index 36e08ac..57ac000 100644 --- a/gerbonara/gerber/cam.py +++ b/gerbonara/gerber/cam.py @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ class FileSettings: # Format precision integer_digits, decimal_digits = self.number_format if integer_digits is None or decimal_digits is None: - raise SyntaxError('No number format set and value does not contain a decimal point') + raise SyntaxError('No number format set and value does not contain a decimal point. If this is an Allegro ' + 'Excellon drill file make sure either nc_param.txt or ncdrill.log ends up in the same folder as ' + 'it, because Allegro does not include this critical information in their Excellon output. If you ' + 'call this through ExcellonFile.from_string, you must manually supply from_string with a ' + 'FileSettings object from excellon.parse_allegro_ncparam.') # Remove extraneous information sign = '-' if value[0] == '-' else '' |