-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bob Paddock wrote: > On Monday 20 August 2007 09:32, Christoph Lechner wrote: >> Exactly. If you draw a track in Protel, its ends are "rounded"; it adds >> a filled circle with diameter=track width to the end points > > Which has the really annoying effect of giving you a rounded end > poking out of a pad when you enter the pad from the other side. > Sometimes resulting in DRC errors. > Protel/DXP snaps to the center point of the pad, and the rounded end doesn't > always end where the pad does and gets close to the next > pad of a device. Never seen that. Of course my artwork should be a snap for PCB tools. The most 'extreme' artwork style I use is 2 layer PCB with 10/10mil rules. Not that hard. But, before I let some PCB fab commit my stuff on FR4, I want to do a prototype board on my own.
> >> You can move things around as you like. Then once you need the polygon >> rebuild, you double click the polygon plane and a dialogue pops up, >> showing the parameters used when you first created that fill. Then you >> click OK and it recomputes the plane. The baseline is that it isn't done >> automagically at all, you have to do it as you want/need. > > Because it is slow and crash prone in my experience with it. Thats right. Whenever I work with Protel, I begin a new file about every two hours as file corruption happens sometimes. But it's M$ Windoze software :) Somewhat OT, BTW. - - C. Lechner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGypCzWo2QgtqY4K8RAujpAJ9c3uAqNCtRsfY5dX3vKAPkaMPNjQCeL+FO 3GzJZJgJKATZRA1mgYPCRdg= =G+0m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
