Ian,
All works fine. From the install that I found this bug, this is the way the INI file was ordered, I did not change what was there, changed added to the end what was missing. But here is the extremely curious thing. Why does installing Protel from the CD onto a clean machine have different effects? ie. Why does this not happen on all installations? I have unistalled and manually deleted all *99SE.ini files and re-installed or after installing on a fresh machine and do I not have to change the INI file for this correction? Obviously there must be some other bug going on. You have one layer drawing order, and I have two drawing orders. One missing mechanical layers 5-16, and one with the mechancial layers. And from reading the thread, it would seem that some people have had this problem and other not. Anthony Whitesell Sunrise Labs -----Original Message----- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:54 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Solution to Setup Mechanical Layers On 04:37 PM 13/02/2002 -0500, Anthony Whitesell said: >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. > >Below is a copy of the layer drawing order from my modified INI file: > >LayerDrawingOrder0=76 Anthony, This is funny, according to the info on layer numbers that I was provided (by Protel) on the layer numbering you have LayerDrawingOrder0 as the background layer. I wonder what affect this is having? My ini file has: LayerDrawingOrder0=74 LayerDrawingOrder1=33 LayerDrawingOrder2=34 LayerDrawingOrder3=75 LayerDrawingOrder4=0 LayerDrawingOrder5=1 LayerDrawingOrder6=2 LayerDrawingOrder7=3 ... ... My LayerDrawingOrder0 is set to to MultiLayer while yours is set to BackGroundLayer. I am intrigued about what the effect of you having the first layer as the background? (For a complete list of the layer numbers see the end of my other post on this subject.) Bye for now, Ian Wilson * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
