Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill

2001-12-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:24 AM 12/18/01 -0800, Brad Velander wrote: Abd ul-Rahman, have you noticed any of the rotated fills where the drawn gerber generation leaves gaps in your otherwise solid fill? Like a database that I am looking at right now which has approx. 0.5 mil gaps in the gerber draws of a

Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill

2001-12-18 Thread Dave Eloranta
] -Original Message- From: Leonard Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 5:13 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject:Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill Wow. That is interesting and kind of amazing that it is workable. And the first paragraph where

Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill

2001-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:52 AM 12/18/01 -0600, Dave Eloranta wrote: It would seem that Protel 9SE and Camtastic must share some unit conversion code that has a bug. I doubt that they share code. I'd be interested to look at the actual gerber generated with the arc problem that Mr. Eloranta reported. I looked on

Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill

2001-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:12 PM 12/17/01 -0800, Leonard Fischer wrote: If they don't, or don't quickly enough to do what you need, could you work at some multiplication/magnification of the final scale, say 10x, then just photographically reduce the Gerbers? I'm assuming there is some way to do that

Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill

2001-12-18 Thread Brad Velander
10:32 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill SNIP To my mind *any* plot errors are mission-critical. I did receive an immediate response from Michelle Covington at Protel US support that she verified the problem. I did make it easier for her by providing not only

[PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill

2001-12-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I'm working on a board which requires high precision, in the submicron range. Theoretically, Protel supports photoplotting with four-place decimal metric, i.e., one-tenth micron resolution; however, I ran into some problems with PCB and with CAMtastic. Rotated fills, which are not flashed but

Re: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill

2001-12-17 Thread Leonard Fischer
EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] bug plotting rotated fill I'm working on a board which requires high precision, in the submicron range. Theoretically, Protel supports photoplotting with four-place decimal metric, i.e., one-tenth micron resolution; however, I ran into some problems with PCB