# Gerber Panelizer: How to panelize boards **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 30, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/gerber-panelizer-how-to-panelize-boards/244 "2020-06-30T20:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@Doom](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/gerber-panelizer-how-to-panelize-boards/244/1 "2020-06-30T20:46:52Z")
Usually, manufacturers are able to panelize boards by themselves but sometimes it is difficult ! I have experienced a problem with panelization of 3 different boards (6+6+6) on the same panel. Hopefully, I discovered on [Hackaday](https://hackaday.com/2017/06/21/panelizing-boards-the-easy-way/) the Gerber Panelizer tool, part of a suite of softwares called [GerberTools](https://github.com/ThisIsNotRocketScience/GerberTools). And this saves me ! 🎉 It is usable even if there are some little bugs. It also produce top and bottom realistic picture of the panel. The main problem for me is that I do not succeed in building it quickly for Ubuntu, so I took an old Windows PC to do that. 😭 To help doing what should be done, there’s also a big article about panelization on [Electronic Design](https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/boards/article/21801451/pcb-designers-need-to-know-these-panelization-guidelines). Hope all these information will help you in case of you fall there ! And maybe, all these tools can be incorporated in LibrePCB one day 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@Doom](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/gerber-panelizer-how-to-panelize-boards/244/2 "2020-06-30T21:07:08Z")
There’s not really a documentation, but you can find some tips here : [http://blog.thisisnotrocketscience.nl/projects/pcb-panelizer/](http://blog.thisisnotrocketscience.nl/projects/pcb-panelizer/) ---
**Author:** ![dbrgn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/librepcb.discourse.group/dbrgn/32/25_2.png) [@dbrgn](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/dbrgn)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/gerber-panelizer-how-to-panelize-boards/244/3 "2020-09-02T20:27:34Z")
Very nice, I have searched for a tool to panelize Gerbers a long time ago and only found a single tool, which didn’t work. Usually I asked the manufacturer to panelize for me, but it’s a bit of a risk.