Re: [PEDA] Getting a polygone pour out of the way for updates

2003-12-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
Hi Steve, 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

Re: [PEDA] Getting a polygone pour out of the way for updates

2003-12-15 Thread Ian Middleton
I just normally add an extra temporary layer (or layers), double click on the polygons and edit them onto the temporary layer. Do all your editting etc then move the polyons back onto your working layers. Remember to delete the temporary layers when finished. -Original Message- From:

Re: [PEDA] Getting a polygone pour out of the way for updates

2003-12-15 Thread Mike Ingle
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

[PEDA] polygons

2003-12-15 Thread Mike
Hi Tony, In poured polygons the best solution is to just turn off the fill, this will allow you to move and add entities a lot easier, it also solves a bigger problem when you have multiple polygons and every time you move something you won't get (analyzing net) that takes forever. Simply turn

Re: [PEDA] What is the meaning of DXP

2003-12-15 Thread Protel Hell
ha, ha, ha! how about Don't eXpect Productivity? DXP seems more like an 80's DOS program like Wordstar than a modern Windows application, the ctrl-alt-keyclicks are not even consistant between PCB-schematic-and CamTastic From: Bob Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] What is the meaning of DXP

2003-12-15 Thread bob stephens
In all fairness, the consistency of keystrokes and general user interface features is one *Hell* of a lot better in DXP than it was in previous versions of Protel. -Original Message- From: Protel Hell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PEDA] polygons

2003-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I wrote an extensive response in this thread last week, and it seems to have disappeared. Last week I started to get back a few Mailer Daemon error messages that the domain techservinc.com could not be reached. But some messages did get through and in this case I got no error message We'll

Re: [PEDA] What is the meaning of DXP

2003-12-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
What in the world are you talking about? I didn't lash out. I said: Is that really necessary? Or productive? Mr. Tian, it stand for Design Explorer, (maybe such as: Design eXPlorer), but why is that a problem you suddenly met? The first sentence was obviously aimed at Bob's comments, because I

[PEDA] Mail problem

2003-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I wrote in another thread: At 02:11 PM 12/15/2003, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I wrote an extensive response in this thread last week, and it seems to have disappeared. Last week I started to get back a few Mailer Daemon error messages that the domain techservinc.com could not be reached. But

Re: [PEDA] What is the meaning of DXP

2003-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:12 PM 12/15/2003, Protel Hell wrote: ha, ha, ha! how about Don't eXpect Productivity? DXP seems more like an 80's DOS program like Wordstar than a modern Windows application, the ctrl-alt-keyclicks are not even consistant between PCB-schematic-and CamTastic This is not at all surprising.

Re: [PEDA] What is the meaning of DXP

2003-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
It occurs to me that something I wrote was less than clear. At 05:33 PM 12/15/2003, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I've been starting to use DXP, and my first impressions are (1) DXP has some very nice features (2) As others have noted, there is a learning curve. I wrote about the