Andrew, What do you see when you load your gerbers into Camtastic?
That might shed a little light on the problem. JaMi Smith * * * ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:35 AM Subject: [PEDA] Thermals not recognised by our board house > I've just tried to send our latest Gerbers to our board house, and they can't > interpret a thermal aperature embedded in one of the files for a power plane. > > The offending item is: > > %AMTHD201* > 7,0,0,1.400,1.400,0.000,45* > % > %ADD201THD201*% > > This situation throws up lots of questions: > > What am I seeing? A Protel bug or an inexperienced board house? I've heard dark > things said about Protel's Gerber generation in the past. > > How do I interpret the above if, say, I wanted to hack my own thermal > aperature? Or if I wanted to work out if a pair of parameters is impossible > (e.g. if one figure is an outside diameter and the other is an inner diameter, > then setting them both the same would give a zero width line). > > Does Gerber have a standard set of aperatures, and does Protel throw in it's > own customised ones? > > I have other custom thermals on the board. Why aren't these causing problems? > > Our temporary fix is for our board house to hack the aperature, and in the > meantime I'll experiment with changing my custom thermals, and perhaps trying > Protel's default ones. > > Andrew Ircha > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
