2nd that motion. That is really true with most cad systems, Cadnetix (an old system) actually used your own library parts to represent the gerber read back into the CAD system, so no check there at all. Even when VeriBest came about originally they gave you the ability to check your gerbers using some sort of drafting viewer, which again was no real check of gerber output, and VeriBest soon after supplied GerbTool with its product. Whether the CAD system supplies it or not a gerber viewer by some other company than the CAD system is absolutely needed to verify output. Unless of course you want to hope your fab vendor will catch bad output. Bob Wolfe
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kulajew Waldemar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:43 AM Subject: [PEDA] Viewing gerber files with Protel [was:Viewing gerber files] > Tony, Alfonso and enyone who might care, > > shure you are able to view gerber files by reemport them into Protel. And I fell into that trap! > For Protel read its own mistakes as good files. As discussed here some weeks ago Protel has a wrong definition of octagonal Pads (they are rotated about 22,5 degrees) so if you use is in a Polygon, and the maufacturer use it like it is, it shorts everything! If you use Protel for viewing your gerber-files you will not see this error, in Camtastic or other viewers you will. > So I prefer external viewers. And for beeing completely shure I use a viewer that is not sold with the EDA-System. Spell: Graphicode or other freeware. > > regards > > Waldemar > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:51 AM > > To: 'Protel EDA Forum' > > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Viewing gerber files > > > > <-- snipp --> > > I've had very good success with this even > > though some people > > complain that it isn't good to use a viewer from the same > > people that > > made the generator. I think that thinking might be faulty, > > because they > > were probably fairly independent developments. Now that Protel has > > Camtastic, they have two solutions for you. (Camtastic was > > supplied with > > P99 or was it P99SE??) > > > > Tony > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
