Sorry to say, it made PCB editing sluggish, followed by a crash (99SE win2k, RADEON 9000 dual 1600x1200, 1gb mem, 2.6ghz Athalon).
Mike Ingle ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:16 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Getting a polygone pour out of the way for updates > In a message dated 12/15/2003 4:25:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > I just tried your tip on a board I'm working on, and it crashed DXP > and > > 99SE! I experimented a bit, and it seems like if can draw one huge > line > > somewhere in the polygon, it's ok. If it can't draw anything, an AV > occurs > > in ADVPCB.DLL. I can close the AV and then do an orderly shutdown of > the > > app. > > > > I'm going to try this with a couple boards to see if it's consistent. > > (20 minutes...) > > > > It's not consistent, but it does happen on several boards. (just not > all of > > them) It does it in DXP, so I'm going to file a bug report. > > > > That's odd. I've used that trick on a number of boards with nary a crash > that > I could attribute to it. I've certainly seen my share of other crashes, > of > course, although lots less since I moved from Win95 to Win2K. And I've > always > used it with a width setting so wide that it can't draw any primitives > in the > polygon - that was the whole point. I'd be interested if you find what > feature > of the board makes the difference. > > Steve Hendrix > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
