Re: [PEDA] .TXT File generation

2001-12-16 Thread Ian Wilson
On 12:01 PM 16/12/2001 +1100, Ian Wilson said: On 04:43 PM 13/12/2001 -0400, Tim Fifield said: Thanks Tony, but I'm too busy to test the Pad XY theory right now. (To Group) However, my next problem is that I have a 170 test points on the bottom of my pcb that don't have the testpoint box checked

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts and nets

2001-12-16 Thread Ian Wilson
On 12:28 PM 16/12/2001 +1300, Brendon Slade said: Layer specific keepouts have been a recent topic but I wonder if anyone has discovered that you can assign a net to a layer specific keepout? I have this board that is mounted to 10mm bosses on an aluminium chassis, and the screw head is smaller

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts and nets

2001-12-16 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:28 PM 12/16/01 +1300, Brendon Slade wrote: Layer specific keepouts have been a recent topic but I wonder if anyone has discovered that you can assign a net to a layer specific keepout? It's not surprising, since keepouts are just regular primitives with the keepout attribute, but I had

Re: [PEDA] Paste masks

2001-12-16 Thread Wayne Trow
Brendon, Thanks for the info. Its going to be a pain in the rearend to go through manually (even with global changing) and change all my smt reflow footprints to reflect the 5% or so reduction that I need to make to keep our manufacturers happy. Yes - we use a 6thou stainless stencil for

Re: [PEDA] Paste masks

2001-12-16 Thread Ian Capps
Wayne You would be better off specifying the 5% reduction to the fab shop that makes your stencil or doing it in gerber. I used to work in a fab shop and it was a 2 minute process through Lavenir gerber software, probably the same through Camtastic but I don't have any experience in that. Ian

Re: [PEDA] Connection (ratsnest) color (was: How to change Netlis t lines back to solid lines?)

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas
You remember correctly, this does not work for me either (just tried it), sorry for the misleading info. -Original Message- From: Dwight Harm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 14 December 2001 6:23 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Connection (ratsnest) color (was: How

Re: [PEDA] Altium article from Australian electronic news Dec mag

2001-12-16 Thread Terry Harris
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:51:31 +1100, Darren Moore wrote: It gives a little in-site as to what's coming...(long) Buttrose said hardware design and software development are essentially 'two sides of the same coin' and need to be tied together m some way as electronics technology progresses. Well

Re: [PEDA] Paste masks

2001-12-16 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:50 AM 12/17/01 +1100, Ian Wilson wrote: On 10:34 AM 17/12/2001 +1300, Wayne Trow said: We have recently had problems with our smt placement machines and reflow causing beading of the solder because of too much solder paste. I have been asked to reduce the paste apertures by 5% on all smt