Re: [kicad-users] Re: gerber files produced by kiCad
I did that, and this is the reason why I duplicated the soldermask because I wanted to have pads on the both side! Thanks a lot!! // from iPhone Le 18 mai 09 à 01:12, Joerg joerg...@analogconsultants.com a écrit : Julien Bayle wrote: thanks a lot :) it is very clear to understand. I exported those layers for the 1st pcb of my project. Just one more comment: It pays to take a real good look at all your Gerbers with a gerber viewer. This usually makes it obvious what function a certain file has regardless of how cryptic its name is. It also catches bugs. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Re: [kicad-users] native autorouter VS freerouting.net
Thanks a lot!! I'll test it asap! It could be fine to put these informations in the pdf or elsewhere Talk soon // from iPhone Le 17 mai 09 à 23:37, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi Julien, It looks like a problem with your designators. A while back a problem was fixed with the specctra import where a component name began with a number instead of an alphabetical character. So your component 1pin should now parse correctly. I think your problem is with the reference designators for your component 1pin, they have no designator portion, only the number is present. So your 1pin component designators are for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. instead of something sane like J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, etc. Unfortunately I'm on a plane tomorrow and am packing now so I don't have the time to look at this any further, but I'm sure you can fix this by making sure your 1pin reference designators start with at least one alphabetical character (a-z) The KiCad autorouter is currently not as good as the freerouter.net version, so I would suggest using the freerouter version at the moment and importing the specctra session back into kicad as your are trying to do if you intend to autoroute boards. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com: [Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle included below] hi Brian, here is the error message (in french, but I can translate it) here is the ses file from freerouting.net, too. I hope I can solve that ... as I wrote, I don't understand too why sometimes kicad doesn't autoroute anything :-( if it does, I don't use freerouting.net anymore but ... Julien 2009/5/17 Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com: hi, I would want to autoroute my pcb. I tested native autorouter... on several pcb, it began to autoroute and finished . on some other, it didn't start and just displayed the whole unrouted wires. so, I tested freerouting.net it works everytime and it is pretty good! BUT, how to use the result from freerouting.net to kicad to finish my pcb ?? I tried to save the file as a session specctra file (.ses) but when I'm trying to import it in kiCad, there is an error message (expected component_id at line 7 etc etc) how can I solve my problem?? cheers, julien Hi Julien, It sounds like you are doing the right thing, so please post up the exact error message you get, and if possible attach your specctra session file. I'm sure someone will be able to help you further from there. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle 1 of 1 Photo(s) error.jpg 1 of 1 File(s) PCB1.ses
Re: [kicad-users] Drill file missing vias
wdoe999 a écrit : I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but... I created 3 boards that have one or more vias on each. If I create a drill file for each board, the drill file does contain all of the via drill holes for that board. I then put the 3 boards onto one panel and then created a drill file. In the Drill-Files- Generation dialogue box, under the Holes-Count section, it clearly says that there are 7 Through-Vias. However, the resulting drill file only has one via in it. Curiously, it is the one via on the leftmost board. It seems to be missing the vias from the other boards. There's no problem with any of the other drill holes. The plotting for the panel is OK as well. Please, can you send me yours PCB files ? (to jean-pierre.char...@gipsa-lab.inpg.fr) -- 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 : Grenoble Image Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA - INPG) Grenoble France
[kicad-users] Re: native autorouter VS freerouting.net
I tested it, it works FINE! now, I'm going to post another question about ground zone and automatic trace suppression ... thanks again! --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Julien julien.ba...@... wrote: Thanks a lot!! I'll test it asap! It could be fine to put these informations in the pdf or elsewhere Talk soon // from iPhone Le 17 mai 09 à 23:37, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@... a écrit : Hi Julien, It looks like a problem with your designators. A while back a problem was fixed with the specctra import where a component name began with a number instead of an alphabetical character. So your component 1pin should now parse correctly. I think your problem is with the reference designators for your component 1pin, they have no designator portion, only the number is present. So your 1pin component designators are for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. instead of something sane like J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, etc. Unfortunately I'm on a plane tomorrow and am packing now so I don't have the time to look at this any further, but I'm sure you can fix this by making sure your 1pin reference designators start with at least one alphabetical character (a-z) The KiCad autorouter is currently not as good as the freerouter.net version, so I would suggest using the freerouter version at the moment and importing the specctra session back into kicad as your are trying to do if you intend to autoroute boards. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@...: [Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle included below] hi Brian, here is the error message (in french, but I can translate it) here is the ses file from freerouting.net, too. I hope I can solve that ... as I wrote, I don't understand too why sometimes kicad doesn't autoroute anything :-( if it does, I don't use freerouting.net anymore but ... Julien 2009/5/17 Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@... 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@...: hi, I would want to autoroute my pcb. I tested native autorouter... on several pcb, it began to autoroute and finished . on some other, it didn't start and just displayed the whole unrouted wires. so, I tested freerouting.net it works everytime and it is pretty good! BUT, how to use the result from freerouting.net to kicad to finish my pcb ?? I tried to save the file as a session specctra file (.ses) but when I'm trying to import it in kiCad, there is an error message (expected component_id at line 7 etc etc) how can I solve my problem?? cheers, julien Hi Julien, It sounds like you are doing the right thing, so please post up the exact error message you get, and if possible attach your specctra session file. I'm sure someone will be able to help you further from there. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle 1 of 1 Photo(s) error.jpg 1 of 1 File(s) PCB1.ses
[kicad-users] zone creation automatic track suppression [1 Attachment]
hi, I create a pretty ground zone in order to suppress some tracks. no problem for the zone creation. it is very well documented so.. BUT I have a little problem: after the filling of the zone, it remains all the tracks existing between the pads supposed to be connected to the zone. I put a snapshot of this. Could someone help me ? Julien
[kicad-users] Re: zone creation automatic track suppression
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Julien Bayle julien.ba...@... wrote: hi, I create a pretty ground zone in order to suppress some tracks. no problem for the zone creation. it is very well documented so.. BUT I have a little problem: after the filling of the zone, it remains all the tracks existing between the pads supposed to be connected to the zone. I put a snapshot of this. Could someone help me ? With the latest rev, you don't need to create tracks between pads that will be connected to the zone; thermal reliefs will be automatically created, with the relief widths of the size specified in the zone fill dialog. Two exceptions to this. You may want normal reliefs to be wider than will fit into a small pad, like a TQFP. In that case, use a narrow trace and connect that pad to another component on the net as usual. The other exception would be power pads where you might want much larger traces. Again, draw these separately at the desired width. Once you fill the zone, any existing traces will be merged to the zone in the Gerber file and won't be separately visible in the final board.
