Hi Bob, I doubt that your component footprint is what is causing the problem. As I recall, the most common reason for the "failed to initialize" complaint from the 99SE router was a missing or incomplete bounding outline on the keepout layer.
There are some suggestions/hints in the knowledge base article: http://www.altium.com/forms/kb/kb_item.asp?ID=1694 Regards - Harry At 11:40 AM 11/10/2006, you wrote: >Hi Again, >As you can tell I am just getting into 99SE. Believe it or not PCB 2.8 had >done all I needed for quite a while. I now have a board with some components >at 45 degrees and 2.8 falls apart there. Anyway, I am probably doing this >wrong but it has worked for all this time in 2.8. I defined a >heat-sink with some >fills and no pads. When I would pre-route in 2.8 it would change >these fills to >what ever might be connected to them, like the tab on a D2PAK. I >tried to turn >off all the auto-routing in 99SE to get a pre-route but it does not >work. It goes >through the locked traces and then says it cannot initialize which really does >not tell me anything. I am not even sure if 99SE will act the same way as 2.8 >did. I may have to re-do the way I define my heat-sink. This is a >surface mount >heat-sink that has a contact area like a "U" (Aavid 7109D). The only >way I can >figure to do this is will 3 fills. As you can tell I am way behind >the curve here and >would appreciate any suggestions. >Thanks, > >-Bob >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Robert Ritchey >Quest Engineering & Development >1328 East Cottonwood Lane >Phoenix, AZ 85048-4765 >Tel: (480) 460-2652 >FAX: (480) 460-2653 >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >WWW: www.QuestEngDev.com/ >WWW: www.Smart-Fly.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]
