Better yet, don't import your Gerbers back into Protel at all . Use a 3rd party viewer like Lavenir (Viewmate) or Camtastic, both are free and do a great job at catching all these little gerber generating bugs and/or user errors .
Best Regards, Matt Tudor, MSEE http://www.gigahertzelectronics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Elson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Gerber generation bug? > "Watnoski, Michael" wrote: > > > Greetings All, > > > > I am generating the Gerbers at 2.4 imp. The problem does not seem > > to be a round off type, rather the arc portion of the poured polygon around > > a pad continues for a full 360 degrees. I did not have to import the > > Gerbers back to Protel. > > No, I didn't mean to import Gerbers into protel for work on the PCB, but > to see whether Protel displays the incorrect info IN PROTEL. This would make > it a lot more meaningful to the Altium support people, if the error can be > demonstrated completely within Protel. I always check my Gerber files > by importing back into Protel, and catch a number of common mistakes > in setting up apertures, hole sizes, board outline and plot legends, etc. > I do this mostly because it is the fastest way to check the Gerbers. > > Jon > > > ************************************************************************ > * Tracking #: 8A2612DAEB9E8045B6B5ED837D393DC97FDEEDC4 > * > ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
