At 18:09 04.02.02 -0500, you wrote: >At 09:30 PM 2/4/2002 +0000, Steve Wiseman wrote: > >>I'm not sure if you import & check your gerbers, looking for features that >>have been rendered wrongly... It's not something I'm prepared to do. (this >>board reports as 20,000 tracks, 4019 pads, and I'm looking for a defect 8 >>thou by 6 - it's quicker to have it etched & assembled than to go through >>looking for weird problems) > >That's a very small pad, this could be related to the problem. There are a >number of things I can think of, but I can't take the time to speculate, >I'd rather look at files.
Just a quick shot, you said the pads are drawn with an aperture of a quarter of the smallest dimension of the pad. In this case this would be 1.25mil. Have you tried to gerber with a 0.01mil resolution? Is such an aperture in the gerber file? If yes, is this aperture actually used? Edi Im Hof >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Abdulrahman Lomax >Easthampton, Massachusetts USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + IH electronic + Phone: ++41 52 320 90 00 + + Edi Im Hof + Fax: ++41 52 320 90 04 + + Doernlerstrasse 1, Sulz + URL: http://www.ihe.ch + + CH-8544 Rickenbach-Attikon + E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + Switzerland + + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
