Re: [PEDA] Through hole IPC recommendations

2003-03-03 Thread Brad Velander
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 Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel

[PEDA] P99SE Annotate component sorting order.

2003-03-04 Thread Brad Velander
OrCAD or other packages, the Help file agrees with me 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

Re: [PEDA] P99SE Annotate component sorting order.

2003-03-06 Thread Brad Velander
? Is there another option that is not quite so time consuming? 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 Smith [mailto

Re: [PEDA] Components tombstoning After reflow.

2003-03-06 Thread Brad Velander
that we are starting to get down to the details if you can answer all of the questions I posed, either just to your own satisfaction or shared with the rest of us. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax

Re: [PEDA] SORT ORDER IN LEFT PANE

2003-03-13 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 -Original Message- From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Re: [PEDA] disappearing pads

2003-03-14 Thread Brad Velander
as the overlapping area between multiple layers. So it will not necessarily print the real size of any pad portion on a single layer. 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] SORT ORDER IN LEFT PANE

2003-03-17 Thread Brad Velander
that is undefined at this time. 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: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] tab route 2.4

2003-03-17 Thread Brad Velander
Dennis, I could also contribute that in the imperial world our local suppliers seem to have 0.094 as their standard routing tool. That is a very close equivalent to 2.4mm. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089

Re: [PEDA] SORT ORDER IN LEFT PANE

2003-03-17 Thread Brad Velander
Yes Dennis, we are talking of the same 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.com -Original Message- From: Dennis Saputelli

Re: [PEDA] wierd blacklist message

2003-03-19 Thread Brad Velander
not be using hotmail for their email address. Checking out the website, they sell PC equipment. Maybe it is just a rouse to up their visitor count on their site. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax

Re: [PEDA] wierd blacklist message

2003-03-19 Thread Brad Velander
if it is probably just some autoreply from their email server for a closed email account. 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

Re: [PEDA] P99SE crash on opening schematic

2003-03-21 Thread Brad Velander
)? Sorry I don't recall exactly how I recovered but maybe just playing with the Windows printer config will get things reset and working. 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] avoid obstacle

2003-04-02 Thread Brad Velander
Ian, I did see this one time myself, I had unknowingly disabled all the spacing rules. Could this be your problem as well? I believe that you may also have to have online DRC enabled. Sincerely, Brad Velander -Original Message- From: Ian Capps [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] DE 99SE IN WIN 98 AND 2000

2003-04-03 Thread Brad Velander
, 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: George R. Forse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:15 AM

Re: [PEDA] DE 99SE IN WIN 98 AND 2000

2003-04-04 Thread Brad Velander
begin to fathom as I am not a programmer. I only know that corrupted BPL and DPL files can be the source of problems with P99SE from firsthand experience. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010

Re: [PEDA] BOM sorter

2003-06-20 Thread Brad Velander
you check the macros. 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: John A. Ross [Design] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] BOM sorter

2003-06-20 Thread Brad Velander
it would go, just one line and it was in error because it should have had a quantity of 2. It also doesn't seem to handle rows where the first column is blank. And I have now seen the runtime error 13 a number of times as well. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc

Re: [PEDA] OrCad to Protel

2003-06-23 Thread Brad Velander
and it supplies the best technical support that I have found anywhere for any CAD package, no one can compare to the gang providing free advice and technical support on this newsgroup 24-7. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct

Re: [PEDA] design verification

2003-06-23 Thread Brad Velander
and reports them as unrouted nets which is an annoyance at times. I wish it had the capability to determine if the unplated pad actually resulted in a real unconnected net not just reporting every unplated pad as a possible unrouted net. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat

Re: [PEDA] BOM sorter

2003-06-23 Thread Brad Velander
later today. I will also see if I can repeat the run-time error 13 and send it and some details of how it occurred to you, if I can repeat it. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email

Re: [PEDA] Win2K SP4 and P99SE

2003-07-04 Thread Brad Velander
-SP4 and Sp4 suffixes on a bunch of M$ Hot Fix entries. 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: Brian Guralnick

Re: [PEDA] PADS ?

2003-07-10 Thread Brad Velander
from scratch in that effected area. I would have to ask, does Spectra have this capability? If Spectra doesn't then I suspect that nobody does, at least not as simply as it was described. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604

Re: [PEDA] trouble generating Gerber files in Protel 99SE

2003-07-11 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 -Original Message- From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8

Re: [PEDA] very large database files

2003-07-15 Thread Brad Velander
the database must be closed, not open in your Protel window. 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: Frank Gilley

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE experience

2003-07-16 Thread Brad Velander
yes, ATI video cards were part of the problem back a few years 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 http://www.norsat.com

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE experience

2003-07-17 Thread Brad Velander
operation. Oh yes, ATI video cards were part of the problem back a few years 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 http

[PEDA] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets.

2003-07-22 Thread Brad Velander
that doesn't connect are the 4 port connections. What am I missing guys? 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] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets.

2003-07-24 Thread Brad Velander
through the listserver in less than 5 - 7 hours in the past couple of days. No volume of posts and it is slower than it ever was in the heydays. So much for the wonderful support available within 15 minutes as it used to be on this list. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat

Re: [PEDA] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets.

2003-07-24 Thread Brad Velander
jury rigged it by doing as you do, putting netlabels on both ends of the nets, voila connectivity. However, I should not have had to and they are squeezed in between the sheet symbols and the next component, not pretty. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc

Re: [PEDA] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets.

2003-07-24 Thread Brad Velander
, 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: Chris Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:33 AM

Re: [PEDA] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets.

2003-07-25 Thread Brad Velander
and definition was very clear. I would have gotten there in a day or two when the pressure to get these boards out subsided, but thanks again. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email

Re: [PEDA] DESIGN EXPLORER 99 SE DRILL FILES

2003-07-28 Thread Brad Velander
effect the drill file 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 -Original Message- From: Website Visitor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets.

2003-07-28 Thread Brad Velander
three hard coded options, that is not flexibility. Sincerely, Brad Velander -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 26/07/2003 3:57 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Cc: Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE Sheet

Re: [PEDA] Analysing...

2003-07-31 Thread Brad Velander
the hide checkbox. Visibly this will hide the GND ratsnest, not necessarily desirable but it solves the long delay issues. 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] Analysing...

2003-08-03 Thread Brad Velander
Still running Win98 as you had stated in your earlier messages? That would be the most common reason for your crashes if you are still running Win98. 99SE SP6 will run quite stably on WIN2000 Pro. Pretty stable NT4. Sincerely, Brad Velander -Original Message- From

Re: [PEDA] Autoplace Issues

2003-08-11 Thread Brad Velander
with a zero or negative spacing value. 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 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail and any attached files may contain

Re: [PEDA] Unacceptable Bug in Protel 99 SE SP6..!

2003-08-14 Thread Brad Velander
pin connections. 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: John Branthoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [PEDA] DRC = disfunctional rule concoction?

2003-08-14 Thread Brad Velander
generating a violation. The only option would to have no rule but this will only work in some limited cases 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

Re: [PEDA] Unacceptable Bug in Protel 99 SE SP6..!

2003-08-19 Thread Brad Velander
Abd ul-Rahman, can I come work for you? 8^ I'll settle for 2 - 19 monitors, beats 1 - 19 monitor. 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] ddB Repair actually works!

2003-08-22 Thread Brad Velander
more about the jet database system than I do, possibly they will explain better or correct me if I made any erroneous suggestion. 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] Root deleted?!

2003-08-22 Thread Brad Velander
This sounds like a time to try the repair facility! Sounds like a DDB file structure problem. Big down arrow, Design Utilities, Repair Tab. The DDB must be closed in order to run the repair facility on it. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave

Re: [PEDA] Geometric Center

2003-08-25 Thread Brad Velander
quickly while doing the rotation. Not sure that this could be what you have seen but thought I should mention it. 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] Geometric Center

2003-08-26 Thread Brad Velander
, copper fills, copper tracks, text and other lines. The mid location never changed as long as I didn't change the pad locations. Changing pad locations by 10 mils resulted in the expected 5 mil shift in the mid PP point. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave

Re: [PEDA] Geometric Center

2003-08-26 Thread Brad Velander
Robert, I have heard that previously as well but I have never experienced it myself. At least not where I realized that this was what had happened. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292

Re: [PEDA] Geometric Center

2003-08-26 Thread Brad Velander
Nope Abd ul-Rahamn, I checked the pad extents as well, changed the sizing and offsets in either direction on the pads. No effect! Didn't test the pad rotation. I just did not mention each and every minute detail that I checked in my earlier post. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB

Re: [PEDA] How to locate components?

2003-08-27 Thread Brad Velander
. Best advice is to search the library area of their website. Be careful though, I would not be surprised if there were differing tracts for PEDA and DXP libraries. Therefore you might find them but they may be for DXP newer libraries. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International

Re: [PEDA] shift del

2003-09-02 Thread Brad Velander
one that you don't yet have a back-up for. 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: Dennis Saputelli [mailto

Re: [PEDA] Paneling

2003-09-02 Thread Brad Velander
, they complained and actually ran the board through PP twice. Once for each board on the panel (2-up).) 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] shift del

2003-09-02 Thread Brad Velander
policy. 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

Re: [PEDA] Paneling

2003-09-02 Thread Brad Velander
counters just scoff and won't accept them. A dollar in the bean counters hand today is better than two dollars tomorrow. 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] Library management in a multi-user environment - is this broken?

2003-09-03 Thread Brad Velander
heard 'rumours' (never tested it myself) that their DDB read/write control just doesn't work reliably or properly, typical. 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] License Legalities

2003-09-04 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 -Original Message- From: Tim Fifield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12

Re: [PEDA] Footprints with traces

2003-09-10 Thread Brad Velander
components rather than building them in. With built in ancillary components you will have issues creating your schematic and BOMs because you will not be treating them as separate components. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089

Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ?

2003-09-18 Thread Brad Velander
of their purchase, you should investigate this. Why start out with a legacy product which the supplier has announced (as long as 18+ months ago) will not be supported with any bug fixes or product improvements? Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave

Re: [PEDA] Quirks and Errata and Bugs, Oh my!

2003-09-18 Thread Brad Velander
are finished.* When I am using this feature I usually unlock all the footprints using global editing, when finished I relock them all using the global editing again. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax

Re: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??

2004-08-11 Thread Brad Velander
similar to this if you lost your printer configs that it was expecting to see. Sincerely, Brad Velander PCB Designer Xantrex Technology Inc. (direct) (604) 415-4054 (general) (604) 422-8595 ext. 4054 (fax) (604) 422-1591 -Original Message- From: Ian Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[PEDA] Problem with grid placement of components in P99SE.

2004-09-17 Thread Brad Velander
. Sincerely, Brad Velander, PCB Designer. Northern Airborne Technology 1925 Kirschner Road, Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7. (250) 763-2329 ext. 225 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http

Re: [PEDA] Problem with grid placement of components in P99SE.

2004-09-17 Thread Brad Velander
. All the designators are centered and thus have some weird coordinates. Sincerely, Brad Velander, PCB Designer. Northern Airborne Technology 1925 Kirschner Road, Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7. (250) 763-2329 ext. 225 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto

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