Thanks for the overview and comparisons. If manufacturers ask for gerbers, that's what I send them - I wouldn't use another format unless they asked for it.
So in all cases we should know fabrication specifications) I prefer to use gerbers, but I remember that I should create correct layer stackup and impedance profile. In case of factory can handle Gerber this way looks good enough to produce PCBs. But if company needs release database (not Altium release system) ODB looks good. Thanks for this video - its great to know something more about other ways to do somethig other than I used to)
When you talk about "Gerbers" are you talking about the 1980s definition? Because I think the current standard (for several years back) does define pads ... but maybe you're talking about defining them in a different way than I would.
I only lumped them together because I have never seen a manufacturer specify whether they will only accept X2 versus the older version, from all I have noticed they will just take whatever you give them. As I recall when I last did a recreation of a PCB from Gerbers, I used the old version of the Gerber files and it was able to extract most of the pads anyways, so I suspect this has become be a non-issue for CAM software.
Es menos adoptado por el nivel de especialización que conlleva, la mayoría de trabajos que eh visto no necesitan un análisis de reactancia, impedancia, ni de frecuencia, aunque es bueno conocer estos formatos
There is an option to include drill symbols into gerber. But I never used that. Separate drill files is a must, especially for blind and half-open vias.
