Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-05 Thread Brad Velander
> -Original Message- > From: Ken Pelic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:22 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by > Protel DRC > > > We re-generated using 2.4 format and our gerb

Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-05 Thread Ken Pelic
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC I have had this very problem when I had metric and inch mixed and the gerbers were done in 2.3 format, I then changed to 2.4 or 2.5 and the same file produced usaeble gerbers. So now whenever I have something with primitives

Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-05 Thread rlamoreaux
I have had this very problem when I had metric and inch mixed and the gerbers were done in 2.3 format, I then changed to 2.4 or 2.5 and the same file produced usaeble gerbers. So now whenever I have something with primitives smaller than 10 and 10 I use 2.4 or 2.5 format. Roundup error will kill

Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-04 Thread Shane Edwards
k you. --- -Original Message- From: Ken Pelic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:11 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC Dear Forum members, I submitted a design for fabrication that was put on hold for sub-5mil copper sp

Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-04 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:14 PM 9/4/01 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: >Don't use measure primitives, use Report Measure Distance. You may have >to set the snap grid to a small value, like .01 mil while you are doing the >measuring. Reports/Measure Distance is not particularly good at accurately measuring the distance bet

Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-04 Thread Brad Velander
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:11 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC > > > Dear Forum members, > > I submitted a design for fabrication that was put on hold for sub-5mil > copper spacing, a conflict wi

Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-04 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:11 PM 9/4/01 -0500, Ken Pelic wrote: >So far, I have >located one case where different nets are 4.2 mils apart in the gerbers >(using CAMtastic) yet Protel's DRC failed to flag this violation with the >Clearance Constraint design rule set to 5 mils, different nets, board scope. >I tried to m

Re: [PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-04 Thread Jon Elson
Ken Pelic wrote: > Dear Forum members, > > I submitted a design for fabrication that was put on hold for sub-5mil > copper spacing, a conflict with our fab drawing notes. So far, I have > located one case where different nets are 4.2 mils apart in the gerbers > (using CAMtastic) yet Protel's D

[PEDA] Gerber clearance violations not found by Protel DRC

2001-09-04 Thread Ken Pelic
Dear Forum members, I submitted a design for fabrication that was put on hold for sub-5mil copper spacing, a conflict with our fab drawing notes. So far, I have located one case where different nets are 4.2 mils apart in the gerbers (using CAMtastic) yet Protel's DRC failed to flag this violatio