[kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
Alain, Please give me some other hints . I have tryed to do everyting that has crossed trough my mind : - unsitalled and reinstalled the kicad (stable and svn versions) - deleted all edges and draw them again - deleted globally tracks - deleted some mounting holes that I have added manually (douille 4mm) - track operations optimisation - export to spectra and import again - append the board to other board - I have deleted all the Kicad keys in registry - I have opened a board from sample projects which are delivered with installation kit , tryed to plot them and sam result . Same result. cannot plot board ! all coordinates in gerber or PS file are the same. Do you have any ideea if it is an stand alone executable who generates pho and .ps files ? Maybe I have a wrong version and might be in other place Thank you, Daniel %ADD21C,0.01*% G04 APERTURE END LIST* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* Regards, Daniel A similar issue was discussed on the Brazilian list... It was Renies's suggestion to check if you a good board edge. It's something to do with Gerber's limit that default to the first track in the file. As this is a recurrent problem, maybe it could be addressed in the Gerber genetation code... Alain
[kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
Looking trough older posts I have found a situation when plot was crashing and I searched for N V values greater than 21 - no chance. I have restarted my computer several times now. I really need some advices. pcbnew generates plot files with same coordinates even for sample projects. Regards, Daniel
Re: [kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
in fact that issu was *not* solved with that brazilian user :( I was in the discussion because I made a board with Kicad and sent to the same manufacturer without any problem. My suggestion: - I don't belive that this is version related (with latest ones) - try making a new small board and simulating the problem - try drawing the edges before the tracks If you can make a small example (of if your board is not confidential) we can try the devel list, sending that board to one of the developpers Alain dandumit escreveu: Alain, Please give me some other hints . I have tryed to do everyting that has crossed trough my mind : - unsitalled and reinstalled the kicad (stable and svn versions) - deleted all edges and draw them again - deleted globally tracks - deleted some mounting holes that I have added manually (douille 4mm) - track operations optimisation - export to spectra and import again - append the board to other board - I have deleted all the Kicad keys in registry - I have opened a board from sample projects which are delivered with installation kit , tryed to plot them and sam result . Same result. cannot plot board ! all coordinates in gerber or PS file are the same. Do you have any ideea if it is an stand alone executable who generates pho and .ps files ? Maybe I have a wrong version and might be in other place Thank you, Daniel %ADD21C,0.01*% G04 APERTURE END LIST* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* Regards, Daniel A similar issue was discussed on the Brazilian list... It was Renies's suggestion to check if you a good board edge. It's something to do with Gerber's limit that default to the first track in the file. As this is a recurrent problem, maybe it could be addressed in the Gerber genetation code... Alain Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
[kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, dandumit dandu...@... wrote: Alain, Please give me some other hints . I have tryed to do everyting that has crossed trough my mind : - unsitalled and reinstalled the kicad (stable and svn versions) - deleted all edges and draw them again - deleted globally tracks - deleted some mounting holes that I have added manually (douille 4mm) - track operations optimisation - export to spectra and import again - append the board to other board - I have deleted all the Kicad keys in registry - I have opened a board from sample projects which are delivered with installation kit , tryed to plot them and sam result . Same result. cannot plot board ! all coordinates in gerber or PS file are the same. Do you have any ideea if it is an stand alone executable who generates pho and .ps files ? Maybe I have a wrong version and might be in other place Thank you, Daniel %ADD21C,0.01*% G04 APERTURE END LIST* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* X0Y0D02* X0Y0D01* Can somebody else duplicate this problem for this fellow? If so, then please gather up all the files required to cause that problem duplication and then send them to my personal email address. dick AT softplc dot com I don't have time to come back and ask for a missing library or whatever. Make it easy for me so my time expenditure is minimized. Also, when reporting what you think is a bug, ALWAYS state the operating system and version you are using. Quite a few folks are using linux these days. Dick
[kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
Dear All, Thank you for helping me (to be frankly I was thinking that I will go craizy). Short facts : 1. I'm working on Windows XP proffesional 2. I have designed the board using latest stable release 20080825 3. Willing to benefit from latest developemnts I have copied the SVN 1507 on a separate folder and I have edited furthermore the board 4. When trying to plot even using v1507 or latest stable I get wrong result. Now even print preview doesn't work anymore 5. even if I cleaned the registry, and all the folder that have crossed trough my mind it seems that the latest version has saved something somewhere and the board becomes unplottable I have reproducted the error. Look what I have done : 1. on a clean computer I have installed the stable release 2. I have plotted successfully the pic_programmer project from installation sample folder 3. I have copyed in a separate folder the v1507 executable 4. using this pcbnew.exe the plot generation generates errors 5. even using back the stable release executables the plot generation generates wrong results again 6. I have archived all the files from pic_programmer folder and I cand send them to who might be able to debug this situation. Interesting thing : on the fresh installation of stable release (without starting the v1507 exe on machine) the board opens nicely and generate correct plot files. Thank you for helping me, Daniel Can somebody else duplicate this problem for this fellow? If so, then please gather up all the files required to cause that problem duplication and then send them to my personal email address. dick AT softplc dot com I don't have time to come back and ask for a missing library or whatever. Make it easy for me so my time expenditure is minimized. Also, when reporting what you think is a bug, ALWAYS state the operating system and version you are using. Quite a few folks are using linux these days. Dick
[kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
Thank you Dick ! I have posted the files on this site. Could someone download it and help me solve this problem ? http://www.dioda.ro/downloads/pic_programmer.rar Daniel That's all I can offer on this. I do not use Windows and therefore also not the Windows version of Kicad. I tried, Dick
Re: [kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
dandumit a écrit : Thank you Dick ! I have posted the files on this site. Could someone download it and help me solve this problem ? http://www.dioda. ro/downloads/ pic_programmer. rar http://www.dioda.ro/downloads/pic_programmer.rar Daniel I tested your files and kicad works fine for me. But i noticed in your files you are not using the last stable version of kicad. can you download the official last file KiCad-2008-08-25c-final-WinXP_autoinstall.zip) from http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/ I never saw your problem; but test this kicad build (I am thinking some built versions have a problem (know for french and german versions about the foating point numbers notation, and only with some built versions), but not your problem). An other related problem under Windows has been reported by 2 users having a Windows XP release candidate (but it was a display problem) solved with a final Windows version -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS Maître de conférences Directeur d'études 2ieme année. Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle 2 Institut Universitaire de Technologie 1 de Grenoble BP 67, 38402 St Martin d'Heres Cedex Recherche : GIPSA-LIS - INPG Rue de la Houille Blanche 38400 Saint Martin d'Heres
[kicad-users] Re: Plot issue on PCBNew
PS: to go back use final release,correct windows register, edit HKEY_USERS\Software\kicad\pcbnew, change de keys PlotXFineScaleAdj and PlotYFineScaleAdj to 1
