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I am attempting to create small simple flat helix coils using 1mil trace/space in DXF and convert to Gerber

I am attempting to create small simple flat helix coils using 1mil trace/space. Is it preferable to create single line representing trace and set the line width in the conversion at 1mil or preferred to create "outline" of trace and "fill"?
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Using the "outline" version is much better when converting coil traces, because you have complete control of the geometries.  Just remember that in Gerber a boundary must be "closed" to be filled.  Fortunately ACE includes tools to "Join" the boundaries and also detect Islands/Holes in Polygons (De-Embedding).

Please see the tutorial movie below:
http://screencast.com/t/RtXGUYJQWovV


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