Re: [PEDA] Negative Text and/or Components

2001-05-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:43 PM 3/27/01 -0500, Thomas Sprunger wrote: I am trying to find a way to place text and components on ground planes (or polygon fills) and to make them an absence of copper (or Anti Copper in Orcad). Is this possible in the PCB portion of Protel? Anything is possible, even if we don't

Re: [PEDA] Negative Text and/or Components

2001-05-07 Thread Jon Elson
Thomas Sprunger wrote: I am trying to find a way to place text and components on ground planes (or polygon fills) and to make them an absence of copper (or Anti Copper in Orcad). Is this possible in the PCB portion of Protel? I think you can ONLY place anti-copper objects on the plane. It

Re: [PEDA] Negative Text and/or Components

2001-05-07 Thread Dennis Saputelli
i have created negative text this way, I put a sample on egroups some time ago bit of a pain though, don't think it's really nec Dennis Saputelli Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 01:43 PM 3/27/01 -0500, Thomas Sprunger wrote: I am trying to find a way to place text and components on ground

Re: [PEDA] Negative Text and/or Components

2001-05-07 Thread H. Selfridge
Hi Thomas- The answer is simple - anything you draw or place on a plane in Protel is a void (copper will be removed). Planes are negative images - they are entirely covered with copper until you place something on them to remove the copper. A fill on a plane layer would be a copper void; on