You are correct Dick, I never said it was a bug. I knew there was a half mil being Thrown away in the NC drill file generator, I just inadvertently pressed the [`] key And it changed the grid from 5 to 2.5 mils. Thank goodness I didn't do it again. You know people make mistakes and our job should include minimizing the consequences Of those mistakes, kind of like the undo feature. That being said I compiled Kicad with the updated NC drill file generator and plotted My design again. I submitted to the PCB house and it passed DRC with no errors. Thanks For Solving my problem I was looking at spending the holiday fixing the mess manually. I recommend anyone doing manual routing change the next grid hotkey to Ctrl+G.
-----Original Message----- From: Dick Hollenbeck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 11:16 AM To: Carl Rash; KiCad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] FW: Next Grid hot key ` and the nightmare it can release On 07/03/2012 05:09 AM, Carl Rash wrote: > Dick, > The diameter of the hole and the diameter of the via pad are correct > (verified with 3rd party gerber viewer), 0.015 and 0.025. The problem > is the hole is off center. I believe this code in gendrill.cpp is > selecting the size of the drill and that is correct. It may be that > placing a hole within one half a mil is not possible using the NC > format if that is the case then I would have like to have it detected > at the DRC phase and not after submission to the PCB fabrication > house. Perhaps a minimum annular ring test would be a good DRC check. > I am going to try and change the next grid hot key to a combination > like > Ctrl+G that way It will not be likely that I can inadvertently change > Ctrl+grid > size without knowing it. I have never used auto routers, I prefer to > do it myself so I depend on the grid staying where I set it. > > Thanks for time > Carl Rash Is there actually a bug here? It is sounding like a user error, not a true bug. It is fully understandable that you do not like the current functionality, which might be validly classified as something other than a bug. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
