> Alright, forget my message unless it is just to confirm that the automatic > process for adding Mech layers to printouts is broken. I found the > work-around by adding the layers within the individual drawing prints within > the Browse PCB Print. > > Hi all, > now I believe a fair while ago I had seen references on the > listserver to bugs in the print servers for P99SE. Does this possibly > include a bug that does not allow mechanical layers to be added to all > plots? If not, in Final Plots, how do you get the "Layers To Add When > Creating Plots" to work after selecting/checking the mech layers that I want > added to my plot? I have tried checking any number of these mechanical > layers and they never seem to get added to my plots. I have rebuilt and > re-processed the plots. > > Brad Velander Printing can be undertaken using either the Power Print Server or the "old fashioned" way. When using the Power Print Server, it is possible to add to, or remove, layers from the list of those (layers) which will be printed with each Printout definition that has been created within a Printout Configuration file. There is a dialog box which can be used to select which Mechanical layers will be included in Printout definitions. But the layers so selected apply only *after* these have been set up, and as such, are not applied "retrospectively" to any currently/previously defined set of Printouts. When using the "old fashioned" procedure (the PCB:SetupPrinter Process invokes the "Printer Setup" dialog box, which is of a "base camp" nature in this regard), there are problems associated with selecting which Mechanical layers have their contents included in printouts of a "Final Mode" nature, and there are also problems associated with including any Mechanical layers in printouts of a "Composite Mode" nature. In that regard, a PcbAddon server which I have released incorporates Processes in which the associated dialog boxes *do* work as envisaged; this server also supports configuring printouts of a Composite Mode nature using parameters (so avoiding the invocation of the associated dialog box). If you have some reason for wanting to use the "old fashioned" method, then you should consider downloading a copy of this Server. As advised in a recent post, I have provided one version (the original of this) for use with SP5, and another (more recent) version for use with SP6. (If appropriate, email me for URLs for acquiring these Servers, but I did provide the associated details in a fairly recent posting.) I would not be too surprised if the "old fashioned" procedure was no longer supported *at all* in the next major version of Protel. As it is, with the current SP (SP6), and at least some of the previous SPs (for Protel 99 SE), Final Mode printouts from the Drill Drawing and Drill Guide plotlayers are no longer supported, and that is also the case for (Pen) Plotter printouts of either Final Mode or Composite Mode nature. (In other words, you have to use the Power Print server to produce printouts from the Drill Drawing or Drill Guide layers, and if you want to produce any penplots, you have to install and then select an appropriate printer driver.) Regards, Geoff Harland. ----------------------------- E-Mail Disclaimer The Information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any opinions or advice contained in this e-mail are confidential and not for public display. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This message sent by: PROTEL EDA USERS MAILING LIST * * Use the "reply" command in your email program to * respond to this message. * * To unsubscribe from this mailing list use the form at * the Association web site. You will need to give the same * email address you originally used to subscribe (do not * give an alias unless it was used to subscribe). * * Visit http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/subscrib.html * to unsubscribe or to subscribe a new email address. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ________________________________________________________ To leave the EDAFORUM discussion list, send a email with 'leave edaforum' in the body to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' More Information : http://www.dolist.net
