Brad (and anyone else who wants to chime in): Does CAMtastic work OK when you panelize an array of the same PCB? I may want to try this sometime soon.
I have used CAMtastic for basic Gerber manipulation (adding targets, etc.). It worked OK for that. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Velander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Merging boards > Gareth, > you obviously haven't used Camtastsic to try and panelize 20+ > different boards into one panel. It is a joke. I have done it, it is a > process of load gerbers, merge layers, delete layers, load gerbers, merge > layers, delete layers. Then there is no absolute coordinate control system > for location of the gerbers, no properly functioning snap feature, so on and > so on. It also won't correctly merge drill sizes into one common drill tool > file so you have to get creative through manual editing to combine similar > drill sizes from differing PCBs into one common drill tool. > Oh, almost forgot to mention the out of memory errors when you have > 256MB RAM and over 700 MB of virtual memory, with over 700MB of virtual > memory free and still some RAM remaining free. Camtastic is the only thing > besides W2K system stuff running and it is only using 70MB according to Task > Manager. If Camtastic was actually being used by a board fabricator they > would go bankrupt faster then you can shake a stick at them. > > Sincerely, > Brad Velander. > > Lead PCB Designer > Norsat International Inc. > #300 - 4401 Still Creek Drive, > Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5C 6G9. > Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) > Fax (604) 292-9010 > Website: www.norsat.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gareth De Mar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:04 PM > To: 'Protel EDA Forum' > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Merging boards > > > Protel 99SE is not well suited for the purpose of panelising boards. > Better off generating Gerber files and panelising with > Camtastic. > > Gareth de Mar. > Compucat Research Pty Ltd. > Ph: 02 62951331 > Fax: 02 62951855 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
