HuH?
Well I tried that report function on the vias that you mention
Abd-ul Rahman, it certainly doesn't make any sense to me because I just
tried it on a board that has an outline and components entered but no
routing done. It does report my Routing Via Style for the size however, it
reports a via count of 30 when there were absolutely no vias in the design
yet. None in component footprints either. So again I state, huh?
As for the Routing Via Style check in the DRC rules, the text
comments in the upper right of the DRC window state "The maximum and minimum
via attributes are checked by the on-line and batch DRC." Obviously another
in the long list of Protel lies.
Brad Velander,
Lead PCB Designer,
Norsat International Inc.,
#300 - 4401 Still Creek Dr.,
Burnaby, B.C., V5C 6G9.
Tel. (604) 292-9089 direct
Fax (604) 292-9010
website www.norsat.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:22 AM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] enhancements:
>
> The Routing Via design rule seems to be intended for the
> autorouter, as has
> been noted by Mr. Velander, it is not a rule check.
> There is, however, a manufacturing rule for annular ring.
> This will detect
> if any via has been modified such that it has insufficient
> annular ring. If
> the via has sufficient ring, I might suggest that "fixing" it
> so that it is
> the same as all the others might be intellectually satisfying but is
> unlikely to improve the manufacturability of the board except
> under certain
> conditions:
<SNIP>
> There is a report option under
> Report/BoardInformation/Report, Net Via
> Size. It is unclear to me what it does. It provides what
> appears to be a
> report of via outer diameter, but the information as to
> diameter seems to
> come from the Routing Via rule rather than from the vias themselves.
>
<SNIP>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Abdulrahman Lomax
> P.O. Box 690
> El Verano, CA 95433
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