Making a stencil gerber in altium results in a corrupt file

[magnets]

Long story short:
gerber created in altium and looks fine in camtastic but is corrupted in view plot and won't open in gerbv. (the stencil manufacturer also has the issue).

Hi
I'm new at SMD PCB and have managed a couple of simple 0605 smd boards, with about 30 components.
I hand pasted them and used a oven with great success.
I'm now trying to make this open source design:
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Which has a whopping 207 components, some of which are 0405.
To that end I will need a paste stencil. But i have an issue:
I'm pretty sure i'm doing everything right in altium but when i create the gtp gerber file (the solder stencil), i can't view it at all in Gerbv and in viewplot it has two massive tracks slapped across it.
In altium:
I open the file
(found here **broken link removed**)
I've followed the instructions here for finding and deleting off board objects
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I click on
File, Fabrication, Gerber files
I have the following settings
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no drill drawing
embedded apertures
You'll notice the film size is very tight around the board, i get no errors about the film being too small.
It creates a perfectly good looking stencil in camtastic (part of altium)
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Then i go File, Export, Gerber
with these options
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And this creates the gtp file
[AVALON_hashunit.GTP]
but when i try to open it in Gerbv I get could " not read..."
in Viewplot you can see these massive tracks smeared across the design
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any ideas?

 

[marce]

Can you open the Gerber file with a text editor. And if so can you post the Gerber files as a .zip.

 

[magnets]

View attachment AVALON_hashunit.zip
doh! sorry i forgot to include the file! would have helped eh?

Yes it opens in notepad ok.
here is the zip of the file

 

[FvM]

It's basically a valid RS-274-X geber file. I believe that some pads need size adjustment. Also the large areas pads would be usually patterned.

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A detail:

 

[magnets]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.

that is really wierd.
I restarted all the apps, and now the original gerber export is fine, but the second version isn't.
I'll just use the first.
thanks again.

 

[Mattylad]

Try changing your input setting on your gerber viewer.

This is often the reason why they look wrong in a viewer I.e the viewer is expecting 2,3 input and you output at 5.4 so it reads in wrong.