A note on the etiology of the Protel Octagonal pad mess:
The original Gerber specification for octagonal pads was somewhat
ambiguous. It appears that the Protel programmers didn't realize the
ambiguity and nail it down, an easy mistake to make. Anyway, when the
specification was rewritten to
At 04:46 PM 12/5/2003, Rene Tschaggelar wrote:
A footprint of a connector, the microstac of ERNI, contains
each two faces per pin. Each pin is just one piece of brass, but not
touching in its middle. An explicitely not having copper there.
So I placed two pins with the same number each. Protel
This then reduces to the old question of how Protel treats pads with the
same name. If you start with a fresh board, no netlist loaded, and you
place the parts, then load the net list using Netlist load, the last
behavior I saw was this:
IMO, the way to treat the double-pin scenario is to
Anyone know if there's a way to convert protel99 schematics to Orcad DSN format?
Please reply directly to my email as my spam filter occasionally deletes emails from
the protel list...thanks!
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At 10:21 AM 12/9/2003, Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
As to the old question of how Protel treats pads with the same name/number:
we don't know for sure, and cannot find out. And anything we assume is
likely to become incorrect across versions. So it's best to use unique pin
names/numbers.
I thought Mr. Bagget's comments deserved a more detailed response.
At 10:21 AM 12/9/2003, Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
Imagine if you were the Protel computer program. The user would need to
tell you in an unambiguous manner how these double pins were instantiated.
If they are given the same
Hi All,
Can anyone point me towards a specification for a EuroCard PCB ?
I'm after dimensions, standard connector positions, maximum height, etc.
As far as I know the EuroCard is 160mm x 100mm but other than that I'm in
the dark.
Thanks in advance,
Linden Doyle
Product Development Engineer
Google works pretty well.
Search for: EuroCard dimensions
The first page has many sites that will show you the info you need.
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From: Linden Doyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:41 PM
To: PEDA
Subject: [PEDA] OT: EuroCard Specs
Hi
