Hello Richard, We regularly produce good assembly drawings from Protel. What we do is as follows;
We have a sheet border on one of the Mechanical layers, and use this layer for all of the assembly notes, item balloons etc. Company graphics are just lines and arcs, created initially from a .dxf file (in our case from AutoCAD.). We create a print .ppc file using this layer, the board outline and component overlay. We print hardcopy direct from this and use a .pdf distiller to create a .pdf version that everyone else can view on our network. We actually have another mechanical layer with a mirror image version of our company sheet border to allow printing of a right-reading assembly drawing for the other side of the board if required. We use a third mechanical layer to produce the sheet border for the master (fab) drawing. It took a while initially and involved a bit of fine tuning, but once it was all done we made that .ddb essentially a template for any new designs. I hope this is of some help to you. regards, Phil Dutton. Tenix Defence Adelaide, South Australia. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stevense [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 7 September 2002 8:02 AM To: Protel EDA Users Group Subject: [PEDA] You can't get there from here (I think)... Hello all, I am vainly attempting to create assembly drawings for my current project. I have found two methods for creating these drawings but with unsatisfactory results. Method 1: Within Print Preview export the drawing (Top or Bottom Overlay/Mech 1 on) without Font Substitution and Non-Enhanced WMF. Open a new blank schematic sheet and place WMF graphic. Result: Weird looking part designators. Method 2: Same as Method 1 but use Font Substitution (Verdana looks best in my opinion). Result: Beautiful looking part designators but some designators (not all) are in weird/rotated positions (not in the same places or orientation as original Print Preview document). Anybody out there have a better method or found some way around this? Start of gripe... Also, I find it odd that you can export in Enhanced WMF from Print Preview but you cannot place this file format in a schematic sheet. End of gripe... Thanks in advance, Richard Stevense Calgary, Alberta. ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: E4A620CE6DF7394E9806222E6D7A0FE51170734C * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
