Hi Darcy Actually this is where it's real advantage is. The board file itself isn't stored in the in the panel just the ref dedails of origin and rotation so you only have a small file. i.e. I just did one that has 2 each of 5 different boards. The individual boards add up to about 1.5M per set and the panel file is only 60K. You can't send the pcb file off for manufacture and have to produce gerbers but that's what most people seem to do anyway.
Big plus is you can't accidentally forget to do a paste special and end up with C142_1 etc all over the place. Ian Capps ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darcy Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PEDA" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:10 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Global position change of a component designator > Ian, > > We're still using P99SE. However I've been very interested in the ability > of > DXP to embed PCBs (for this very situation) as it's one of the feature > improvements that would move me to upgrade. Have you (or anyone else on > the > list) used this feature? Is there a limit to the number of instances of an > embedded PCB one can use? If we embed 20-30 instances in a panel, should I > expect that it will slow my computer to a crawl? > > Brad Velander's suggestion to make a "dummy" component and correct the > primitives there before updating the panel should work. Thanks Brad, Ian > and > Andrew for your suggestions. > > Darcy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > Behalf Of Ian Capps > Sent: August 8, 2006 6:47 PM > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Global position change of a component designator > > Darcy > What version of protel are you using? > In DXP on you can embed PCBs into a panel with step an repeats. When you > do > it this way any change made on the initial PCB is reflected on th panel ad > also the gerbers when generated. > > Ian Capps > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darcy Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:02 AM > Subject: [PEDA] Global position change of a component designator > > >> Hey Folks, >> >> Does anybody know a way of globally moving a component primitive on a >> component which is used multiple times? For example, we have a design in >> which the pin 1 marker (which is a part of the component definition) will >> be >> obscured by other features. This design is panelized in Protel. I'd like >> to >> be able move the pin 1 globally to avoid having to repanelize, but can't >> find a way to move these markers all at once. If the marker wasn't a part >> of >> a component, it would be easy to do a global select and then move the >> selection by the desired offset, but this doesn't seem to work for >> component >> primitives. >> >> Just to stop the assertions that I should panelize the Gerbers in >> Camtastic >> rather than panelizing the design in Protel, there are several features >> on >> the panel which necessitate doing this in Protel. >> >> >> Darcy Davis >> Mechanical Team Leader >> DYNASTREAM INNOVATIONS INC. >> 228 River Ave. >> Cochrane, AB Canada T4C 2C1 >> T 403-932-9292 ext. 132 >> F 403-932-6521 >> E [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> W www.dynastream.com www.thisisant.com >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> 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] > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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]
