I've had a simular problem last year. In my case the reason was a change in the layer-stackup. I've moved midlayer-5 between midlayer-1 und midlayer-2. The midlayer order was then 1, 5, 2, 3, 4.
Some times later i've renamed the layers in the layer-stackup-manager in ascending order (without moving them). Protel has shown the new layer-names in the layer-tabs of the PCB-editor correctly. When running a design-rule-check Protel is complaining about errors on midlayer-2. But when i check the effected objects, Protel is telling me that these object are placed on midlayer-5. This was because Protel is internally still working with the old (hard-coded) layer names. You can rename the layers to their orignal names to get the design-rules running without confusion. Perhaps you want to rearrange the layers in the layer-stack-manager and move the content of one layer to another. I've informed Protel about this behavior. They told me, that it is a known bug. But there was nothing in the knowlegde base! I was very angry about that because it took me a lot of time to find this bug. Best regards, Florian Finsterbusch > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Eloranta [mailto:eloranta@;locusinc.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:56 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: [PEDA] 99SE SP6 gerber file names transposed > > > Hi > I have a 10 layer PCB design file in which the editor shows layer names > normal, the design manager shows the color swatch and layer name properly. > When the gerber files are generated the .g2 file has the tracks from > midlayer4, .g3 file has the data from midlayer 2 , the .g4 file has the data > from midlayer 3. Another side effect is that on the tools-preferences-colors > dialog box the mid layers appear in this same shifted pattern 1-4-2-3. This > layer sequence also occurs on the gerber output selection check boxes. > The problem appears to be in the design file because I did a new install on > a separate computer and the results are the same. I copied the file to a new > name selected all, cleared all, cleared all nets, saved and reopened and the > empty design file still exhibits the same shifted layer patterns. I saved > the file to ASCII and found that line 2 had a number of definitions like > "layer?name=midlayer?" in the shifted sequence but correcting that in the > original ASCII file caused the file to get truncated after line 72. I > suspect something I did early in the design using the layer stack > management must have caused this but I have not found a way back. > I need to correct this file for future revisions. > Thank you > > Dave Eloranta > Locus Inc. > 5440 Research Park Dr. > Madison, WI > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
