Anthony,
yes, yes, yes, your memory is functioning better than mine. That is
the exact problem that I had. The problem is initiated or re-initiated by
clicking the "Default" button on the drawing display order window. If you
fix your display list in the ini file, do not ever click the "Default"
button on the drawing display listing. You can promote and demote layers but
do not press default or the problem will reappear and your ini file will
need to be corrected again.
After I posted the previous message about the display problem I
tested my system and could not demonstrate the problem that I described. I
had fixed it several months ago and have luckily never pressed the Default
button since.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander.
Lead PCB Designer
Norsat International Inc.
Microwave Products
Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line)
Fax (604) 292-9010
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.norsat.com
See us at Booth 323 at Satellite 2002 in Washington, DC March 6-8.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Whitesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:38 PM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Solution to Setup Mechanical Layers
Ken,
I had this problem myself a while back. Mechanical Layer 1-4 work fine, but
5-16 disappear when refreshed using View -> Refresh. When I was
investigating this I had to flip though each layer using the + key to
refresh the board, because view -> refresh was not setup correctly. The
problem is that the layer drawing order does not contain the mechanical
layers beyond layer 4. (When Protel increased to 16 mechancial layers they
forgot to add them to the layer drawing order in the INI file). Check under
TOOLS -> PREFERENCES -> DISPLAY -> LAYER DRAWING ORDER and see if all of
your (mechanical) layers are listed there. I had to manually edit the
ADVPCB99SE.INI file and change some of the LayerDrawingOrderxx=xx because
there is no add button beacuse all of the layers SHOULD be listed. It
represents the list of the layers in the board and the order they are to be
drawn.
<SNIP>
Good Luck.
Anthony Whitesell
Sunrise Labs
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