At 07:17 AM 10/22/01 -0500, Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: >thats an interesting idea of using a transparency. the only >problem i'd have with that is moving around and doing different >parts of the board... i find myself zooming in even on a 6x6 >board until it doesn't all fit on the screen.
Yes, that's why importing a scan to a mechanical layer is much better. Yes, you may have to do some scaling, but you do it once, and then you can trace over the lines. resumably a scan of a PCB is going to need quite a bit of cleanup unless it is imported through a *very* sophisticated program, one that would know about design rules, for example. >from everyone's post, it sounds like a fairly expensive process >with a pretty trashy board if the proper cleanup isn't done. Importing from scans of pcbs is not cheap. Perhaps one to two-thirds the cost of doing the design from scratch. But it need not be terribly trashy, if the gerber-from-scan program is sophisticated and the board is not fine-line. I'd be interested to know more about it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
