Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB generating duplicate nets or ot her errors.

2002-10-02 Thread Brad Velander
cause any problem using the netlist load method but I had several other problems show up using that method. Problems that were completely different than those using the PCB Update Synchronizer. Sincerely, Brad Velander -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum Sent:

Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB generating duplicate nets or ot her errors.

2002-10-03 Thread Brad Velander
cause. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Products Division has now achieved ISO 9001:2000 certific

Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB generating duplicate nets or ot her errors.

2002-10-03 Thread Brad Velander
Bob, what exactly do you mean by a clean copy of the schematic(s)? I picture copying everything from one schematic page to another new page. But what would this accomplish? I would be copying everything, or are you looking to not copy items which 'may' be off sheet? Since

Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB generating duplicate nets or ot her errors.

2002-10-03 Thread Brad Velander
, the problem persisted. Thanks though! Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Products Division has now achieved ISO 9001

Re: [PEDA] Update Schmatics from

2002-10-03 Thread Brad Velander
x27;t know, could not get it to work without deleting and replacing those two parts. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwav

Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB (Solved for the inte rim!)

2002-10-03 Thread Brad Velander
original multipage schematics. Forget who suggested the single large sheet but thanks. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Micr

Re: [PEDA] Update Schmatics from

2002-10-03 Thread Brad Velander
Don't forget to close any schematic that you might 'not' want updated either! Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Nor

Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB (Solved for the inte rim!)

2002-10-04 Thread Brad Velander
rrors resulted from the manner in which we named a couple of components, with synchronizer these were no problem, with netlist this naming screwed the netlist. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292

Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB (Solved for the inte rim!)

2002-10-04 Thread Brad Velander
onents may have only a couple or no prematched components when there should be lots. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Mic

Re: [PEDA] Ghost layers showing up

2002-10-07 Thread Brad Velander
layers show up with highlighted track edges even though the layer is turned off. I don't know any work around. For layers that are turned on, do you know how to use the Display Order control? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel

Re: [PEDA] Ghost layers showing up

2002-10-07 Thread Brad Velander
;t see anything that relates to this problem. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Products Division has now ac

Re: [PEDA] Database maxed !

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
file? What have you got inside the DDB, besides this board you were working on? How big is this board (size, layers, component, net counts)? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [

Re: [PEDA] Database maxed !

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
n the dust. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Products Division has now achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification >

Re: [PEDA] OT - Complex boards and time to Layout?

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
Aj or others, same issue with plating. Differences in copper density (over area) effect the plating rate of Cu to the circuit pattern. Balanced copper side to side, area to area, is the fabricators best friend (yours also in the end). Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat

Re: [PEDA] OT - Complex boards and time to Layout?

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
eing able to control their etching to our requirements, until they can see our boards/panels. They are looking for the even distribution of the Cu in order to meet the tight etching tolerances. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-90

Re: [PEDA] Database maxed !

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
tions of the Protel DDB database system, at it's core it is a Microsoft database storing Protel files. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.co

Re: [PEDA] OT - Complex boards and time to Layout?

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Products Division has now achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification > -Original

Re: [PEDA] OT - Complex boards and time to Layout?

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
even though they were clearly spelled out form the start. In a few rare cases shops have actually backed out of doing the job once they found out I was serious about my tolerances. We still have some problems from order to order with some long term shops. Sincerely, Brad Velander -Original

Re: [PEDA] OT - Complex boards and time to Layout?

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Velander
ld not fab the board as it was laid out. That is not a problem with the fabricators etching methodology, it is a limitation that they acknowledge. A major asset in a board shop in my opinion. Sincerely, Brad Velander. -Original Message- From: JaMi Smith To: Protel EDA Forum Cc: JaMi Smit

Re: [PEDA] flipping board

2002-10-09 Thread Brad Velander
, turn on all layers, 'S'elect 'A'll, 'M'ove 'S'election, click on a reference location, hit spacebar to rotate the board, click at a reference location to place the PCB where desired. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc.

Re: [PEDA] Solder Mask Polygon ?

2002-10-10 Thread Brad Velander
It sure will Mike. You can use pads, lines, fills or polygons on a soldermask layer to create voids in the mask. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [PEDA] Keepout Fills Not Working After Movement 99SE

2002-10-14 Thread Brad Velander
in place and set to no net, save the PCB and close the DDB. Reopen tha DDB and your fills should function correctly again. This has something to do with the no net being set after it was previously another net name. Saving and closing the file seems to always correct it. Sincerely, Brad Velander

Re: [PEDA] problems loading in DDB's after machine upgrade? then read this !!!!!!!

2002-10-14 Thread Brad Velander
re to remember with Engs reinstalling on their own and forgetting to apply SP6. Apply SP5 or SP6 and 'voila', problem fixed. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] problems loading in DDB's after machine upgrade? then read this !!!!!!!

2002-10-14 Thread Brad Velander
Katinka, see my post that followed yours by mere minutes. The install that you applied was probably SP2 or earlier as well. If you install SP5, then there is no trouble with opening SP6 DDBs but earlier SPs do have some problem with SP6 DDBs. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer

Re: [PEDA] Keepout Fills Not Working After Movement 99SE

2002-10-15 Thread Brad Velander
Rusty, hearing your comments below, I am sure that this is the same bug. It must occur similarly with all PCB primitives that come in contact with polygon pours. I have seen it with both lines/tracks and pads. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc

Re: [PEDA] 45 degree pad problem !

2002-10-16 Thread Brad Velander
s your engineer being too paranoid, our engineers have never worried about such minute details even at 35 - 40GHz? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nors

Re: [PEDA] 45 degree pad problem !

2002-10-16 Thread Brad Velander
Jami, doesn't matter how you do it, Protel draws rotated pads or fills when gerbered. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Nor

Re: [PEDA] 99SE full reinstall.

2002-10-23 Thread Brad Velander
in 9x then Reboot 7) Re-apply Service Pack 6 a) If Win 9x Then Reboot Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Products D

Re: [PEDA] 99SE full reinstall.

2002-10-23 Thread Brad Velander
Wojciech, damn you, you beat me to my own answer. 8^> Have a good day. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's M

Re: [PEDA] 99SE Migration

2002-10-18 Thread Brad Velander
out there (some of which 'seem' no better but they are out there). Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Pr

Re: [PEDA] 99SE Migration

2002-10-18 Thread Brad Velander
Ivan, always glad to see your humour remains intact. However, these are your words not mine. I could readily agree with your words. 8^> Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 em

Re: [PEDA] P99SE SP6 Problem with Update PCB generating duplicate nets (solution).

2002-10-24 Thread Brad Velander
icate nets as the netname connections had. To all who took the time for suggesting solutions, thanks again. Egg on your face isn't too bad but could use some more spices. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct l

Re: [PEDA] library review procedure

2002-10-30 Thread Brad Velander
e schematic. This is global for all parts but I think this will suffice for what you want. Remember to check the permanent checkbox or else the settings are lost after the current session. In our case we set partfield1 and partfield3 as visible in this manner. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead

Re: [PEDA] Is forum traffic down?

2002-11-07 Thread Brad Velander
Linden, I will also confirm that it is slow for the last two - three days. I was wondering as well. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[PEDA] Abd ul Rahman, what is with the archive?

2002-11-07 Thread Brad Velander
?)? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited quantities. Sale ends December 24, 2002. Contact

Re: [PEDA] Gerber woes

2002-11-08 Thread Brad Velander
lygon pads period. Hey Abd-ul Rahman, are you out there today? Kulajew needs your expertise on this topic! Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PEDA] Antivirus Software & Memory Issues

2002-11-12 Thread Brad Velander
Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited quantities. Sale ends December 24, 2002. Contact yo

Re: [PEDA] Mouse driver complaints - there's one one every list

2002-11-15 Thread Brad Velander
Sort of a blonde type reference, blue-eyed blonde, right Rene? Damn, I can hardly see though all that whiteout on my screen, gotta get better at spelling right the first time. 8^> Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9

Re: [PEDA] Assembly Drawing generated from Protel99SE

2002-11-19 Thread Brad Velander
ed circles to DXF in Camtastic that will turn them into minute dots somewhere along their circumference. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com

Re: [PEDA] Assembly Drawing generated from Protel99SE

2002-11-19 Thread Brad Velander
Dave, I second your comments below as well. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com

Re: [PEDA] Fw: 2 of 2 [protel-users-resale] Protel 99se for sale?

2002-11-19 Thread Brad Velander
, caveat emptor! Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited quantities. Sale ends December 24, 2002

Re: [PEDA] Gold embrittlement in solder joints

2002-11-22 Thread Brad Velander
several books by John Lau which deal with this issue, sorry can't recall the titles but the issue is dealt with just as an issue within various books of his. I got my copy of the HP article directly from HP, possibly if you ask real nice you can find someone at HP who will also find it for y

[PEDA] P99SE strikes again on a US vacation long weekend holiday.

2002-11-28 Thread Brad Velander
I can't believe the consistency that these issues show up when support is shut-down for a US holiday. So far 3 times this year I find myself unable to call tech support because of a US holiday. I think that is 3 for 3 as far as the unique (not taken in Canada as well) US holidays go. Sincer

Re: [PEDA] FIXED for the moment P99SE strikes again on a US vac ation long weekend holiday.

2002-11-28 Thread Brad Velander
Hi all, well I continued to play just after sending my previous message. I am not sure what I did but after four failures I have now generated Gerber files that look clean so far as I have checked thus far. Flakey, crap! Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International

Re: [PEDA] P99SE strikes again on a US vacation long weekend holi day.

2002-11-29 Thread Brad Velander
t was wrong nor what exactly had caused this erroneous Gerber but it is gone. Ivan, don't eat too much of that Turkey, you'll drool in your keyboard when you fall asleep with your head on the keyboard. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Micr

Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: nVisage ??!!? Caution - BugBear seems to be goi ng around

2002-11-29 Thread Brad Velander
in an email on their system?) and it may be spoofing Rick as the originator. That's a common stunt with these new viruses. But Rick needs to make sure it is not him that got dosed with the virus! Right, Rick? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Mi

Re: [PEDA] P99SE strikes again on a US vacation long weekend holi day.

2002-11-29 Thread Brad Velander
Abd ul-Rahman, FYI it was hardware arcs. Same as I run day in and day out. Seems the problem was something more sinister lurking somewhere in my DDB, Cam Manager or other files within the DDB. See the later message that I posted to Ivan. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat

Re: [PEDA] P99SE strikes again on a US vacation long weekend holi day.

2002-12-01 Thread Brad Velander
ause I did everything in one step I was so pissed off. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Velander
Tony, what about vice-versa to your comment below? PCB copper features in schematic that you don't want in the BOM. Previously one could leave the part type field blank to drop something from the BOM but this was not always the best or cleanest solution. Sincerely, Brad Velander.

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Velander
Ian, cut it out, you're starting to get me excited about DXP. Quit taunting me with this humungous bug fix. 8^> Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Velander
l me exactly what steps will produce this issue, then maybe I can understand why I don't see this issue? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.c

Re: [PEDA] polygon plane clearance question

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Velander
features for a Polygon. Track width, as large as you can allow. Grid spacing, set it to "0mils", this will space the tracks reliably edge to edge regardless of track size. Minimum primitive length, I use 3 mils. Not the end all answer to your questions but should point you in the right d

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Velander
ounds like your description says we get a hodgepodge, I will have to try it out this afternoon. Thanks. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.c

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Velander
ht do something that I wouldn't expect and didn't know. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.nors

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Velander
us if I update from the library, I want a new virgin symbol or part. I don't want some kludge of the old and the new that can get too messy. Then again, I don't drive my symbol details manually, I'm linked. Have a good one Igor. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-04 Thread Brad Velander
footprint but only because we link the footprint information into the schematic from an outside source. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com C

Re: [PEDA] 10 best options I want

2002-12-04 Thread Brad Velander
think that through your explanation of your expectations, you expected the Protel "Update Footprint" function to function more like an Update Cached library option. That is a function that I believe used to be (may still be) in OrCAD if my memory serves me correctly, right? Sincerely, Brad

Re: [PEDA] polygon plane clearance question

2002-12-05 Thread Brad Velander
Cmon Rene, I didn't have time to write a book. Likewise one wouldn't typically route 300volts at 4 mil tracks and spaces now would you? There are always other confining requirements and regulations. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwav

Re: [PEDA] Default Pointer

2002-12-05 Thread Brad Velander
ts to the last directory I stored in or the last directory I opened files from. Possibly this is influenced by "Save Preferences" checkbox under the "Big Down Arrow", "Preferences", "System Preferences", mine is checked. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB

Re: [PEDA] Default Pointer

2002-12-05 Thread Brad Velander
s Bill's handy work. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited quantities. Sale ends Dece

Re: [PEDA] Gerber problem

2002-12-10 Thread Brad Velander
uting tools. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited quantities. Sale ends December 24,

Re: [PEDA] Increasing the gravitypoint size

2002-12-13 Thread Brad Velander
nearest corner in some cases. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited quantities. Sale en

Re: [PEDA] Bill of Material Report Problem

2002-12-16 Thread Brad Velander
inary comparison or a text comparison? It could be something that doesn't show as text. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall pr

Re: [PEDA] Bill of Material Report Problem

2002-12-16 Thread Brad Velander
Steve, I haven't received that Protel mailing yet. Protel mailings with me are sort of hit and miss. I commonly hear about mailings on this list but never receive them myself even though I know Protel has all my current contact info. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer N

Re: [PEDA] Virtual Short

2002-12-16 Thread Brad Velander
may have to do a Polygon connect rule under the Design Rule manufacturing tab if you want the polygons to direct connect without thermals to your virtual short pads. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax

Re: [PEDA] PCB Layout Tricks to help identify Lemmon PCB's.

2002-12-16 Thread Brad Velander
#x27;t know the specific names of the IPC coupons, but your fabricator should. Sounds like you & your QA need a long chat with your fabricator, somewhere there is something seriously awry. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 29

Re: [PEDA] PCB Layout Tricks to help identify Lemmon PCB's.

2002-12-16 Thread Brad Velander
. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Check out our fall promotion at www.norsat.com. Limited quantities. Sale ends December 24, 2002. Contact your

Re: [PEDA] Server Uninstall!?

2002-12-18 Thread Brad Velander
path, it probably relates to some fault writing the ini file or one of the other Protel support/setup files. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com

Re: [PEDA] Server Uninstall!?

2002-12-18 Thread Brad Velander
know the network went down and upon restoring and trying to resume work, the servers and licenses were uninstalled on the one machine. My copy was just fine even though I was working at the same time that the network went down. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat Internationa

Re: [PEDA] BIZZARE ! ! !

2002-12-20 Thread Brad Velander
so it would appear that possibly one of the list members is no longer with us. Let's see if I get one of those response now that I have posted. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 ema

Re: [PEDA] BIZZARE ! ! !

2002-12-20 Thread Brad Velander
Jami, haven't seen a similar response since I posted this morning. But we will wait and see. I take it from your description of the issue that it may take some time before the post returns from whichever source they originate. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer N

Re: [PEDA] SV: File names on printout?

2003-01-03 Thread Brad Velander
r the reports menu. Then you can print this text report. Sorry, not at work at the moment so I can't check for the exact command name and location. Sincerely, Brad Velander -Original Message- From: Tommy Ã…kesson To: Protel EDA Forum Sent: 03/01/2003 1:55 AM Subject: [PEDA] SV: Fil

Re: [PEDA] Couple Questions Database Size & Group moves/rotates

2003-01-05 Thread Brad Velander
ng and you will see what I mean. I commonly have a 5 degree rotation selected and it will do it very well, don't know about 90 or 45 degree rotations. The same problem seems from my experience to plague all rotations of items or groups of items. Sincerely, Brad Velander -Original Me

Re: [PEDA] OT: Trace Spacing For 110 Volt Relay Contacts....?

2003-01-06 Thread Brad Velander
also soldermask or no soldermask. Those details should get you an answer, I don't have access to the standards at the moment but others probably do. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604

Re: [PEDA] Pet Peeve (irritating lost feature)

2003-01-09 Thread Brad Velander
the Gerber CAM directories within the same single directory location. I am not sure what exactly you mean by a project directory, I thought that was more of a DXP term. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax

Re: [PEDA] Protel99SE keeps locking up

2003-01-09 Thread Brad Velander
Michael, to the best of my knowledge I am currently running a P3 (damn Intel and their stupid "Model X" "Stepping X" bullshit) on W2KPro without the problems you are describing. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products

Re: [PEDA] Pet Peeve (irritating lost feature)

2003-01-09 Thread Brad Velander
just learned to live with it and remember to change the directory with each new project. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -Origi

Re: [PEDA] Protel99SE keeps locking up

2003-01-09 Thread Brad Velander
nd or look up. I have even tried searching Intel's website for a listing of these family and stepping codes cross-related to the standard processor family names, no luck. I know the list exists (according to our MIS) but I couldn't find it. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsa

Re: [PEDA] Pet Peeve (irritating lost feature)

2003-01-09 Thread Brad Velander
are different then there is no overwriting of previous PCB gerbers. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -Original Message- >

Re: [PEDA] Protel99SE keeps locking up

2003-01-13 Thread Brad Velander
n the way of chart listing these OS processor name conventions. If you can supply a link to such a listing it would be much appreciated, obviously Intel/Microsoft is making it too difficult to find this information on their websites. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat Internat

Re: [PEDA] A Question About PCB Design Rules..... Protel 99SE SP6 .

2003-01-17 Thread Brad Velander
ush it that far because I don't see that being really useful or a common need. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -Original Me

Re: [PEDA] A Question About PCB Design Rules..... Protel 99SE SP6 .

2003-01-17 Thread Brad Velander
yself or a number of others, you probably have it turned off since early in the P99 days. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -

Re: [PEDA] Gerber Import / Viewing in P99SE

2003-01-20 Thread Brad Velander
mported to Protel P99SE. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -Original Message- > From: Terry Creer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PEDA] Gerber Import / Viewing in P99SE

2003-01-21 Thread Brad Velander
w database. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -Original Message- > From: Andy Gulliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesda

Re: [PEDA] perforation

2003-01-21 Thread Brad Velander
heated. If you aren't wave soldering, can you put the boards nearly edge to edge with no frame, just tabs between them. You should check with the assembly house for other assembly issues particular to your assembly. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwa

Re: [PEDA] General component data tracking and library management questions

2003-01-22 Thread Brad Velander
Buck, I am sending you an email that I have shared with others asking some similar questions. Won't repost the same thing over again here. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010

Re: [PEDA] AutoCAD Export

2003-01-23 Thread Brad Velander
nto a WORD document. If you have problems copying a SCH to a Word document, you will surely have similar problems exporting that SCH to ACAD. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PEDA] General component data tracking and library management questions

2003-01-23 Thread Brad Velander
nking function (under 'T'ools, 'D'atabase Links...) that will link information from an external DBIII or DBIV database. The database linking is slow as molasses! Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct

Re: [PEDA] How to copy Protel schematics into other documents

2003-01-23 Thread Brad Velander
alues, may rotate, change font size, change font when cutting and pasting into Word. Sometimes it is quite minor, sometimes the pasted schematic is almost useless. This also occurs if you export the schematic to Word using Autocad export as a mid-step. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsa

Re: [PEDA] General component data tracking and library management questions

2003-01-23 Thread Brad Velander
covering things by accident. This is what pisses me off so much about Protel/Altium, what kind of support is this? DXP is even worse, they barely had any documentation for it at the start, a little bit better now by what I read. Still mostly incomplete though. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designe

Re: [PEDA] General component data tracking and library management questions

2003-01-23 Thread Brad Velander
uld sue! 8^> Naw, forget it, I don't promote people suing because they lack a sense of responsibility for their own actions, there is too much of that crap in the courts these days. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-

Re: [PEDA] Polygon Filled Planes

2003-01-24 Thread Brad Velander
of bounds item(s) could definitely be the source of your problem. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -Original Message- >

Re: [PEDA] 99SE start failure

2003-01-30 Thread Brad Velander
Rene, Aj is talking of the Protel Service Pack 6 for P99SE. Updating Protel 99SE to SP6 is highly recommended and there are no adverse effects to performing the update that I know of. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604

Re: [PEDA] Antwort: 99SE start failure

2003-01-30 Thread Brad Velander
Quick guess! "CTRL" auf englisch? 8^> Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com > -Original Message- > From: JaMi S

Re: [PEDA] ~OT: 3B, 5B, 7B footprint

2003-02-24 Thread Brad Velander
Didn't mean anything to me either, so I knew I didn't have what AJ was looking for. We aren't ignoring or isolating you AJ, we just don't know what you are looking for, so we don't have the footprints either. Is possibly a matter your name for these units? Sincerely,

Re: [PEDA] ~OT: 3B, 5B, 7B footprint

2003-02-24 Thread Brad Velander
Thanks for the links John but they came up stating they were for a page on the website that "...isn't currently supported." What I did finally find seems to be some form of a backplane? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products

Re: [PEDA] ~OT: 3B, 5B, 7B footprint

2003-02-24 Thread Brad Velander
So I see says the blind man. I thought it was just some reference text defining which part was at which link when I initially clicked the links. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email

Re: [PEDA] Cut and Paste bug from schematics to MS Word

2003-02-25 Thread Brad Velander
ious export/import combinations it is surely a Protel problem since it asks similarly in so many apps/formats. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat

[PEDA] Testing! See Lloyd it is still up. 8^>

2003-02-28 Thread Brad Velander
Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager

Re: [PEDA] Through hole IPC recommendations

2003-03-02 Thread Brad Velander
cally this much gold is only used on mechanical contact areas like card edge connectors. It is typically limited to selective plating in the required areas. For regular solderable areas a gold flash of as little as 2 - 3 uinches usually suffices very well. Sincerely, Brad Velander Lead PCB Design

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