Hi Steve, Did you post this on the DXP forum?
I think they will give you a response over there... in fact they have been discussing the IPC-D-356 netlist issue... This is a response to a similar question I copied from there by an Altium rep. -----Original Message----- From: Constantin Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:55 PM To: DXP Technical Forum Subject: Re: [dxp] IPC D-356 NETLIST Hi Clifford, The IPC D-356 netlist doesn't get loaded into CAMtastic by itself, you must generate the Gerbers as well & CAMtastic will load them together with the IPC netlist. The netlist will be generated regardless of the fact that it'll not be loaded in CAMtastic alone. If you want to check your board in CAMtastic the best is to generate the Gerbers, NC Drill & IPC files & auto-load them in CAMtastic (you can find more info about auto-loading into CAMtastic in the paragraph "Auto-loading Fabrication Output into the CAMtastic Editor" in the PDF document mentioned below - TR0127). You can find more information about how to output any of the supported CAM files in the following article "TR0127 Fabrication and Assembly Document Editor and Object Reference.pdf" (you can find this article in the \Help sub-directory of your DXP2004 installation). This article contains a lot more then only CAM files generation so you might have to skip some of the sections. Hope this helps. Regards, Constantin Popescu, Altium Ltd. --------------------------------------------- Hope that helps... Bill Brooks - KG6VVP PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I. Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dtwc.com http://pcbwizards.com -----Original Message----- From: Steve Fenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:25 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [PEDA] Gerber format & IPC netlist Hi folks, I'm relatively new to Protel after 10 years+ of PADS use. They're different, and neither is perfect. One of the good things about PADS is the ability to extract an IPC-D-356 netlist from the PCB file itself. This can be compared with an IPC file generated from gerbers, and used to check the gerbers match the original design. It's saved me from scrap boards more than once! To be fair, PADS requires the running of a Visual Basic script. So, question 1... Is it possible to generate an IPC netlist from the Protel PcbDoc file (i.e. not from Camtastic). Question 2 relates to Gerbers on layers with polygon pours. Any ideas how to get around the composite layer format? Each gerber file opens as three layers in ViewMate - one is the copper, one is the cut-outs, one is the text & lines. I'm running DXP SP2 build 8.2 on XP Pro SP2. Cheers, Steve ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
