i can't understand what you have written here
i understand the tenting issue but when you say:
> The P99SE DRC system does not consider multi-layer entities as also
> existing on the various copper layers.
can you rephrase that for the benefit of my feeble brain?
someone quoted you on this on the DXP list and i don't see the
issue/problem that he sees that he seems to say is tied to whatever this
means
Dennis Saputelli
Ian Wilson wrote:
>
> On 08:21 AM 19/09/2002 +0200, Kulajew Waldemar said:
>
> >IMHO the problem is the design rules are mighty, but not mighty enough to
> >handle a rule like:
> >DesignRule|Manufactoring|SolderMaskExpansion -> scope [Via AND TopSolder]
>
> The P99SE DRC system does not consider multi-layer entities as also
> existing on the various copper layers. This is why Kulajew's rule does not
> work. I have raised this with Altium on a number of occasions. It is a
> structural issue I gather. It is not a bug but a limitation of the
> underlying architecture. To us users, though, it is annoying.
>
> Selective tenting was not considered a major issue (if it was considered at
> all) when P99SE was developed, and the underlying concept that multi-layer
> objects are not part of the individual copper layers from the rules POV
> possibly predates that some time as well.
>
> I have not checked whether DXP is clever enough to know that a multilayer
> pad also exists on each copper layer but it does support selective tenting.
>
> Ian Wilson
>
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