Re: [PEDA] 99SE Find Files Found

2004-09-07 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Jim, I waited like you for 2004sp1 till I bought my copy. I found it a mighty tool but complicated to use. I´d have to agree in some of the things you wrote. Still I find P99SE easier to use and more intuitive then DXP2004_sp1. But there is one thing I have to point on. Have a Look on the downloa

Re: [PEDA] Exporting DWG/DXF

2004-04-27 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Michael, one more foot-in-the-mouth-workaround: deleting unused layers and create your DWG/DXF in 99SE: s/a (select/al) unselect the Layer you need (x/y), delete selection (ctrl/del) File export to DWG/DXF with a new name. undo. select al... etc.etc. Just my 2 eurocents ;-) Waldemar >-Or

Re: [PEDA] Faded Printout of Top Overlay Layer in Protel 99SE

2003-11-12 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Adeel, welcome here :-) Just just have to use the Colors & Gray Scales -Tab under Tools | preferences. And yes, I too needed a long time to find the tab. Regards, Waldemar * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave

Re: [PEDA] Blind vias - troubles with printing check prints

2003-09-04 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Bill, I can not confirm the printount-behavior you mentioned. I use blind vias since I use Protel and never have seen the Problem you discribe. See below. > -Original Message- > From: Brooks,Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEDA] Blind vias - troubles with printing check p

Re: [PEDA] 99SE, PCB, disapearing connectionlines

2003-08-14 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
> -Original Message- > From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is the PCB routed or unrouted? Ian, we got it routed, but for a redesign we unrouted some nets and, after the problem apeares, we unrouted all nets for test. So yes, all nets are unrouted. But while you ask. Th

[PEDA] 99SE, PCB, disapearing connectionlines

2003-08-09 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Hello Everybody out there, Hope you are able to read my engliSCH and understand my Problem. Using 99SE SP6 we discovered a strange behaviour in the PCB-Editor. One of my Colleagues has got an old Eagle design, that was converted by a profesional converter we found by lurking these list for a whi

Re: [PEDA] 99SE, PCB, disapearing connectionlines

2003-08-06 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Mattias, please see below > -Original Message- > From: Mattias Ericson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Check that you have the "Connections" layer enabled under > Design>>Options and the layer setup. Done, the Layer was on. there are _some_ nets shown, others are not. > An other thing

[PEDA] Finaly found a workaround [was: 99SE, PCB, disapearing connectionlines]

2003-08-05 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Mattias, Ian and Robert Ian, we tried the Ascii-export / Import with no success. thank you for your offer to check our files. Mattias, we tried the "copy/all in a new PCB"-Way and it worked. Wahoo! Robert, so we don´t need to try the way you discribed Thanks again everybody. Waldemar * * *

Re: [PEDA] HDI

2003-07-31 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Ted, Yes, there are some of us designing HDI and microvia out there. Yes, some threads went throu the EDA-Forum some month ago. Yes, there is osmething in the Archiv: Plese find the Thread under: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07842.html or: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/ht

Re: [PEDA] Using DXP with a networked library.

2003-07-21 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Kiba, fighting with the same Problem like you deskribe it. > I am trying to set up a library which can be used by multiple > engineers. The problem arises when two engineers are working > on the same library. Both engineers can open the library and > add new parts, but both will find that they

Re: [PEDA] Cad "necessary" resolution

2003-01-15 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Julian, me I am using an 21" with 1280 x 1024. Desided to use the lower resolution but the higher repeating frequency (if this is the correct english word) And find it is good enough, at least for me. Regards, Waldemar > -Original Message- > From: Julian Higginson [mai

[PEDA] Viewing gerber files with Protel [was:Viewing gerber files]

2002-11-25 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Tony, Alfonso and enyone who might care, shure you are able to view gerber files by reemport them into Protel. And I fell into that trap! For Protel read its own mistakes as good files. As discussed here some weeks ago Protel has a wrong definition of octagonal Pads (they are rotated abou

Re: [PEDA] Auto Router Oddity

2002-11-19 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Stephen, it seem to me you run in the same Problem as we first did, running the autorouter on our round boards. We did a workaround by replacing the circle in keepout by a spline (means: small straight tracks) near the board outline, which we normaly draw in Mech1 layer. It use to work for u

[PEDA] Tahnks everybody [was: Gerber woes]

2002-11-10 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Thank you everybody Dave, Bard, John, Kiernan and Abd ul-Rahman. Back from weekend and it seams my Problem is completle enlightened. Now I am able to understand what happend with my Octagons. "Known Problem, caused in misinterpretation of RS-274X" , I guess the best way is to avoid octagons com

[PEDA] Gerber woes

2002-11-08 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Hello all. Is there any GerberGURU out there? I got a call from my board house just some minutes ago. They tells me the extended gerber file I send them is buggy. There seam to be an octagonal pad showing up rotated with 22,5 degrees. That, naturally, causes shorts to the surrounding Pol

[PEDA] Thanks, everybody! was: Error when creating and opening a new shematic.

2002-10-22 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Thank you everybody, Gisbert, Wojciech, Rich! Rich hit the Point. It is the template-file My boss used. He used an oser but our standard and saved it lokal on his Machine. Now I set our Standard Template it seams to work well. PEDA-group is still on Top!! Waldemar > -Original Message---

[PEDA] RE2: Antwort: Error when creating and opening a new shematic.

2002-10-22 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Gisbert, thank you for your Informations. Tried both ways you mentioned with half a success. The access violation message is gone the error "File format.." is still there. Think I have to reinstall Protel. First ToDo point for tomorrow. Thank you ones again, Waldemar > -Original M

[PEDA] Error when creating and opening a new shematic.

2002-10-22 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Hello everybody out there. Here is an ONtopic question and I hope there is somebody left to read it and give me a advice for a solution ;-) For I did not find any Answer in the manual and the Knowledge base. I have got a Problem during creating and opening a new schematic. Let me discribe: A col

Re: [PEDA] WINBRD20, was: [Export Eagle to Protel?]

2002-10-22 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Pascal, Michael Schmitt mentioned he bought the Tool from "Hoschar" an distributor of Protel here in Germany. So I would suggest to contact them under: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Hoping thec still have got it in their distribution while they changed the products they distributed several times.

Re: [PEDA] Export Eagle to Protel?

2002-10-11 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Pascal, we tried to find a tool you are searching for some years ago. The only way we found was to buy a tool from router solutions GmbH here in germany www.rsi-inc.de . We worked with the tool for a while to convert some designs. It was a hard way to go, but mostly because we did not

[PEDA] BlindVia woes [was: Selective tenting on one side only]

2002-09-20 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
-- Hoping this mails shows up in time, having some Problems with my mailings to PEDA -- John, that is one behaviour I was fighting with when I first entered PEDA-Forum in March. I had a good contact to Robi Bittler who showed me the way Rich Thompson mentioned here by leaving the Sold

Re: [PEDA] Selective tenting on one side only

2002-09-19 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Ian, thank you for responding to my mail. If you ever should have Time enough to check "cleverness" of DXP in that case please let me know. It would be a reason to jump to DXP (perhaps after the next SP?? ) By the way: I would appreciate SP7 for 99SE to ;-) Waldemar < --- snip --- > > Sel

Re: [PEDA] Selective tenting on one side only

2002-09-18 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
JaMi, the question you brough up was discussed here a long time ago. For I was a part of the discussion it is still in my mind. AFAIK there is no way to automatize that. One of the gurus out there showed me a way to handle it manually. Step 1. create a soldermask design rule with and

Re: [PEDA] PCB Rules question

2002-08-29 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Hello everyone, Funny how many of us are fighting with the Same Problems. (not so funny when you realize that Michael Schmitt and me are probably working on PCBs for the same devices ;) Like Brad (Mr. Valander) I have tried a lot of Rules to vermeiden this DRC-error. And like him I did

[PEDA] AW2: Polygon Plane clearance and SMD PADs design rule set up for Protel 99 SE

2002-08-20 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Shuping, sorry, but I have no Idea to deal with that Problem. I tried the Settings you made on one of my desings with same result: it does not work. IMO a bug in Protel. There are two workarounds I see, both not realy handy. 1. design a PAD-class (design/classes/pads) for SMD-pads. tha

[PEDA] AW: Polygon Plane clearance and SMD PADs design rule set up for Protel 99 SE

2002-08-19 Thread Kulajew Waldemar
Hello Mr. Lew if you use 99SE there is a wayto do what you want. Please note the Comments in the original message. I hope it helps a little Waldemar -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- < -- snipp --> 1. I'd like to set up the clearance of the plane different from the regular trace of t