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Gerbview to .brd conversion


 

Hey Guys,

Haven't been on here for a while!
I have an odd question though that I just can't figure out.
I am trying to make an interface board to a board I already have (sorta like an arduino type idea), but the other board was designed in Altium. No worries I thought I would just import the gerbers into gerbview and write out a .brd file and then append it to my design and I can allign it that way. The gerbers go into gerbview fine, but when I use export to pcbnew, it creats a .brd file, but when I open it in pcbnew every single one of the square pads has been converted into a round via hole. It wouldn't be too much of a problem but its actually proving quite difficult to allign the squares to the round holes as all the vias and everything overlay it so its quite a mess (see pic in files as conversionError.png
).
any help would be greatly appreciated!

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