I have parts on a few of my boards that are rotated at 45 degrees. If I use round pads, they photoplot OK. When I tried rectangualr pads, they were "drawn" with a spiral pattern that looked like a rectangular pad. If you can live with round pads on your parts, then use them. (BTW - Accel didn't have this problem, if I remember). Sean James PCB Designer Telecast Fiber Systems, Inc. 102 Grove Street Worcester, MA 01605 (TEL) 508.754.4858 x33 (FAX) 413.541.6170
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protell99SE (SP6) missing diagonal pads off gerbers (sometimes) - bug? > > > Now, to the present problem. Here is what I suggest. Create a board file > > with just one of the pads in question. Plot it. Copy the gerber code into a > > mail to the list. Describe the pad's characteristics fully, also anything > > which might be relevant from the gerber setups. > > Unfortunately, neither my simple test board nor a copy & paste of the > offending pads into a test pcb exhibits the fault. (and, naturally, the > pcb in question is sensitive...). I'll keep trying to generate a test case > that fails, but I've not managed to provoke it yet. It's notable that it's > only the shunts that fail to plot - I've got some rotated capacitors that > worked fine. > > Ah - an update. Copy & paste failed, but cut & paste worked. I've now got > a small PCB that shows the behaviour. Any takers for a .pcb and .GBL? > > Steve > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
