Rooms are new and, as yet, primitive. I am grateful that they exist at all! Various improvements are obvious. Polygonal rooms would be more useful, for example.
I haven't used rooms a lot, but that is only an accident having to do with the kinds of jobs I have done since the SE release. At 03:47 PM 1/17/2002 -0500, Fred A Rupinski wrote: >* What is the proper procedure (in the schematic, as implied above) to >successfully define rooms, assign components to rooms, and TRANSFER this >grouping information from the schematic to the PCB? I do not know any way to define component classes in Schematic, other than the default formation of classes by the synchronizer from schematic pages. One could make a temporary schematic page with some subset of components and use that to create a class and associated room. A method of creating component classes at the Schematic level may require a Schematic database change. This is not a small thing! There may be some way to use cross-probing to select a set of components on Schematic and thus the corresponding components on PCB; this would then be used by the Class Generator (Design/Classes/Component/Add/Class Generator) to create a class. The class would then be assigned a room. But I haven't used cross-probing in Protel. I thought there was a way to do this, but I did not see it off-hand. >* Is it possible to rotate rooms (including assigned relative component >patterns) while editing the PCB? Yes. Select the objects, including the room, and rotate them together. Rooms do not seem to have a select field in the dialog, but they do select/deselect with normal mouse/keyboard commands. >* How should ERC 'room errors' be interpreted? (I disable this because I >don't know what a room error means)? It means that a component does not satisfy a room definition. The most common would be that it is outside the room defined for it. >* Is there any problem in letting rooms overlap to obtain a more compact >layout (assuming other rules are not violated)? Overlapping rooms do not create a problem, to my knowledge, if the room rules are properly defined. Gotta go, or I'd write more.... [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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
