Gerber X3/X2 Format Support

Gerber X3/X2 Format Support extension brings The Gerber Layer Format Specification support to Visual Studio Code.

Installation help

For full installation guide, please refer to this documentation.

Features

Opening new file with one of typical Gerber file extensions should allow Gerber X3/X2 Format Support extension to automatically detect the language as Gerber. If language is not detected automatically, You may click in bottom right corner on Plain Text to change language to Gerber.

Afterwards all extension features should be available.

1. Syntax highlighting

2. Specification reference

Hovering over most common commands (currently only D01, D02, D03, G01, G02, G03, more in the future) will show content of Gerber specification regarding hovered code.

Future plans

• [ ] full syntax highlighting support, including all Gerber X2 commands.
• [ ] deprecated syntax warnings
• [ ] interactive suggestions
• [ ] integration with PyGerber for interactive visualization
• [ ] good practices linting
• [ ] pretty formatting
• [ ] minification
• [ ] ...?