Hi Brad -
Sometimes a .dll file fails to properly register when installed. The
result is that the applications that need it can't find it. You can
manually register the file using REGSVR32.
Take a look at the Microsoft information at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;
Windows sometimes has problems deleting or writing over "0" length files
from within an application program. I suggest manually deleting the
~71442.tmp file.
You may find that you cannot delete the file from Windows GUI at all. In
that case, go to the command prompt, change to the directory
Right under the printer name on the "Browse PCB Print" tab is the name of
the type of printout - highlight it, right click, and click on
properties. Make sure that the boxes are checked for components (include
topside, include bottom side, include both). If you don't include the
components f
Hi Mike,
Page three of the data sheet at:
http://www.ssec.honeywell.com/microwave/products/AT4610specsheet.pdf
points to the mechanical data at:
http://www.asat.com/library/drawings/mod/dgmj4i.pdf
The mechanical data is quite detailed, and you should be able to develop a
PCB footprint tha
See Protel Knowledge Base item 1906. You probably need to upgrade the
Microsoft MDAC files.
At 03:53 PM 7/19/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am going a bit crazy with ODBC errors. I know this is an old problem
>but I can't remember what to do about it. I am running 99SE SP6. Win
>2000. I
If it is any help to you in troubleshooting, the file that installs the
Specctra interface is RouteCCT.INS in the Protel 99SE system
directory. The .dll that handles the calls is RouteCCT.DLL.
You might check to see if the server is actually installed by looking at
the "Servers" tab under the
Just a thought, but the last time I priced a Cadence Allegro package, the
stated price of $26,000US was for a ONE(1) year license. The low-ball
price may be likewise for a one year license. I would get all the details
before I got too excited.
--Harry
At 04:39 PM 7/31/02 -0400, you wrote:
The URL for the handbook is: http://www.philipslogic.com/packaging/handbook/
At 09:54 AM 8/13/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>On 09:37 AM 13/08/2002 +1000, Ian Wilson said:
>>On 07:55 AM 12/08/2002 -0600, Westfeldt, Pat said:
>>>Ian
>>>Do you have a URL for this particular Phillips databook? Thank you
Glad I could help.
At 12:29 PM 8/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Thank you Harry. I went to this site and found a link where they are
>sending me the printed version of what they call CIRCUIT PACKAGES DATA
>HANDBOOK, free of charge.
>
>Patrick Westfeldt, Jr.
snip
***
Not necessarily true, Igor - there are many more detailed analyses, but
take at look at http://www.ultracad.com/90deg.pdf as an example.
At 08:24 AM 8/15/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>I would not recommend anyone to use 90deg corners as you will run into the
>emc problems.
>
>Igor
>
>-Original Me
Yep - it still acts the same in DXP.
At 01:01 PM 9/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I am wondering if any of you can replicate this:
>
>Start placing a series of track segments on Mech 1.
>While in the process of placing track, hit the "TAB" key to change the track
>width on the fly.
>Upon changing th
There is also an inexpensive instrument ( about $180US ) called "Leak
Seeker" from Electronic Design Specialists ( www.eds-inc.com ) that does a
very respectable job of finding the location of internal board shorts. It
takes a little practice to get the most out of it, but it does work.
Polar
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that you are calling the wrong
process for Protel99SE.
If you look at the existing menu item for '(P)lace (T)rack', it is really
"(P)lace Interac(t)ive Routing". The process is
"ManRoute:RunExternalManualRouter" and the parameter string is
"$Descrip
Hi Mark,
Here are two links to papers that discuss the subject of soldering to gold
plated PCB's. The first is theoretical, and the second is practical (they
agree with one another). The guidelines you are looking for are on the
last page of the second paper.
http://www.npl.co.uk/ei/document
Hi Mark -
Go back and look at the Bulwith paper again. The recommendation is 5 to 15
micro INCHES. It's the old problem of we Yanks vs the rest of the world in
units. Converted to rest of the world units, Bulwith is recommending 0.13
- 0.38um which is well inside the NPL calculations. Many
Your file probably was created by Protel-for-Windows version 2.8 - vintage
1995-1996. Newer versions of Protel will open the file
At 11:47 AM 12/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
I have just received a Protel file, it has a .pcb extension. I looked inside
the file with a text editor and it has:
PCB FILE 9
Click on the famous "big down arrow" to the left of the "File" menu
item. The dropdown menu will have 'Design Utilities' - therein lie the
compact and repair tools.
At 01:50 PM 3/16/03 -0800, you wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since I've used Protel. I recall there is a utility to
reduce the d
The periodic nature of your system hang, and the fact that disconnecting
the network cable fixes the problem says the PC / Software is network
polling. The only thing I recall from previous postings is covered in
Protel KB item 2058.
At 02:00 PM 3/26/03 -0800, you wrote:
Hi all - This is m
The net connected to the split plane is the net within the boundary of the
split. Your split (+3.3V island) as described will be fine as long as you
are careful not to place a via or pad for either the +5V or +3.3V nets on
the boundary between the two plane regions. Protel has problems decidin
Steve -
I know what it says on page 596 of the designer's guide, but you should try
an experiment yourself. Define a plane as VCC, put a rectangular split
VCC1 in the center of the plane, put another rectangular split VCC2 inside
of that.
You will find that nesting split planes works just fin
Ivan -
I never tried with a Toshiba, but I had good luck using Epson drivers for
other old dot matrix printers. Looking at the Toshiba P351 description, it
appears that an Epson LQ series driver might work (they were/are also 24
pin). Epson was the dot matrix market leader for so long that ma
Every signal path is a loop, consisting of the discrete trace that you
normally regard as the "signal path", and the return side that follows
either the ground or power supply return.
The correct answer to your question is - whichever will produce the
shortest return path for each signal while
At 11:55 PM 8/7/03 +0100, you wrote:
Duane, Harry
Its not nonsense, its for real.
I was made the same offer from the UK VAR but was informed that the
maintenance cover WAS optional, it covered major releases and 'priority'
telephone support. SP, add-ons would always be free for current major
rele
The Protel license is a user license. It gives you the right to install
and use it on a machine, lan, etc - depending on what you paid for.
It does not restrict for whom the work is done. If you use a properly
licensed copy of Protel, you can design a board with that software for
whomever you
Open the "Print Preview" menu under the CAMTASTIC 2000 "File" dropdown
menu, and uncheck the box labeled "Print Page Info Header". This action
turns off the info line completely.
As to why it prints in the middle of the page - it doesn't on my setup. I
can only surmise that it is a quirk cau
Take a look at Protel knowledge base item 2215 (
http://www.protel.com/kb/default.asp ).
I was able to open the Altera Gerbers in CAMtastic, save them to new files,
edit the comment fields out (G04 coded lines), and then import them into
Protel 99SE (with SP6).
If you really need the Altera f
"Tenting" is covering the pad and hole with solder mask. "Plugging" the
via is a much more expensive operation, and is not generally done unless
one is worried about wicking solder away from joints such as BGA balls, or
the via is plugged and surface plated to accommodate a spring loaded
cont
I think what you are missing is that there really isn't a square pad on the
plane for which you need to generate a clearance. You are generating a
blowout around the hole. Plane clearances are normally expressed as a void
expansion around the hole.
If you mean that you have described a squar
Hi Fabian,
The MATROX G450 is a newer version of the G400Max with a high speed
(360mhz) RAMDAC and 32mb of DDR video ram. We use G400 PCI, G400Max AGP,
and G450 AGP video cards on WIN98Se and NT2000 with Protel. They are all
rock stable, and the drivers are regularly updated by Matrox as Mic
To change a file association in WIN98SE the "easy" way -
1. Highlight the file with the extension of interest by left clicking on it
once.
2. Hold down the shift key while right clicking on the file.
3. The drop down menu will now have the choice "open with" added to it -
right click on "open w
Hi Mariano -
You need to find the Manufacturer and Part number for the display, then
look up the manufacturer's part description.
That information will tell you the size of the display, and describe the
footprint. Then you can look up a footprint.
REDCC simply implies a red display with a co
Matrox website at
reasonably frequent intervals - even for older cards.
Harry Selfridge
Encore Engineering Services and Products
Anaheim, CA
At 11:18 AM 12/18/01 +1100, you wrote:
>I'm forever wanting more screen real estate but have not yet got into
>investigating dual head video ca
DigiKey ( www.digikey.com ) has exactly what you are looking for on page
588 of their most recent catalog.
The resistor is made by Panasonic and can be purchased from DigiKey in
quantities of 10, 100, or 200 ( DigiKey part number P4.0TCT-ND for 5% and
P4.0MCT-ND for 1% ).
The Panasonic data s
Nothing received in Anaheim, California, yet either.
Someone here speculated when the offer was made that it was little more
than a way for Protel to rebuild their poorly kept records of legal
owners. It looks suspiciously like the speculation may have been correct.
I had to fax a copy of my
This question comes up once or twice a year. The simple answer is that you
can't do it directly or easily. You can use third party software from RSI,
but even then the files have to be in Allegro extract
format ( http://www.camcad.com/Features/translator.html ). The
"extract" files have
According to the file dates on my old high density 5 1/4" disks - Tango
version 1.13 was October 89, version 1.14 was December 89, (a bunch more
updates we'll ignore) and Tango version 2.0 was December 90.
At 06:06 PM 2/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Anyone got the date for Tango Series II? My copy
Are you absolutely, 100% sure that the two Protel instances are running the
exact same PCB files with the exact same design rules? If online DRC is
active, there will be a difference in execution time if the rules are
different. There will also be a difference in execution time if one file
h
It has been a while since I had to worry about HPGL printer setup, but I
recall having to define pen colors and line widths for the plotter output.
Is it possible that you have failed to define the "pens" for HPGL that
correspond to the color and line width? It may not be plotting because the
You need to get a copy of PROTEL 2.8. There is no direct way to open the
Tango file in PROTEL99SE.
Save the Tango PCB file as ASCII
Read the Tango ASCII file into PROTEL 2.8
Save the PROTEL 2.8 file as ASCII
Open the PROTEL 2.8 file in PROTEL99SE.
Your local PROTEL vendor should be willing and
The relay you are seeking is not "Potter and Bromley" (Potter and
Brumfield) - it is made by OEG which is also a division of TYCO Industries.
It is a simple Form C, SPDT relay. The schematic symbol is the same as it
would be for any SPDT relay.
You can get the relay data sheet at: http://www.
The terminology for the clearance rule can be a bit confusing.
The clearance you are specifying is not an expansion to clear a pad, it is
an expansion to clear the hole.
When you generate Gerbers, you do not get a pad with a clearance ring
around it on the planes, you get a void around the hol
Nothing evil about gold for soldered connections - as long as the thickness
is kept within IPC-2221 guidelines of less than 0.8um (about
31microinches). Where you get into trouble is with thicker layers of
gold. Tin-lead solder normally used in electronics is not fully compatible
with gold p
Silver is not going to last for a year without oxidizing - unless it is
sealed in something that can act as an oxygen barrier. The black silver
oxide layer that will form has low electrical conductivity, and will resist
soldering unless the solder fluxes can carry it away in sufficient quantit
Silver oxide is conductive - more conductive than copper oxide. However,
it is less conductive than any of the atmospheric oxides of gold. Silver
oxide breaks down easily under mechanical pressure - hence the use in
connector pins, relay contacts, etc.
At 11:54 AM 4/23/02 -0300, you wrote:
>
The degree to which the gold alloys are formed is dependent upon soldering
temperature, thermal mass of the surrounding metallic structure, and
thickness of the gold plating. It cannot be said that all of the gold is
alloyed with the tin and lead when the plating thickness of the gold is high.
It is not illegal to pass along Henry's program. It is SHAREWARE, and the
current version is VERSION 2.
From the text file that accompanies the program:
QUOTE
... The PCBLOGO program may be passed on to your friends
and associates who may have an interest in it,
provided it is passed on with
Most likely the board will distort somewhat; however, the board is small -
the amount of cup/warp/twist may be tolerable.
It would be nice if the problem of twist/warp/cupping could be
quantified. Attempts have been made over the past couple of decades to
study the problem and put some number
What they want is a "Drill Drawing" with the drill table. It allows them
to do a visual verification on the size and location of holes when they set
up their CNC drill machine.
Protel generates the drawing automatically on the "Drill Drawing" layer if
you include the layer as one of your Gerb
Suggestions follow each related paragraph of the original message:
At 03:02 PM 5/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm working on laying out my first board with power
>planes and I have a few questions.
>
>1. I placed an arc on the plane (my board is circular)
>to form a circle all the way around the edg
The best way to do this is to call your fab and ask them how they want the
information provided.
A slot, or rectangular hole, is done at the fab by using a routing bit -
usually after the board is complete, but before finish plating and
masking. Your fab will have its own procedures and desir
If this is a product, I advise against your idea. If it is an in-house
project that will only be used in controlled conditions, it will probably
work - for a while.
Shorts through the solder mask are unlikely; however, some of the problems
I see are:
- The package will have uneven stresses o
Look at Protel Knowledge Base item 2215 - it does a good job of explaining
what Protel wants for Gerber import.
At 11:16 PM 6/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
>OK, I've been screwing around with editing gerber files and I'm getting
>closer.
>
>The top of the Camtastic generated gerber file looked like th
A couple of things that come to mind could cause a track not to import
properly into Protel.
First - select one of the troublesome tracks in Camtastic, and verify the
aperture. If the aperture is too small - or undefined - the track won't be
visible in Protel.
Second - you can check the entr
Colin,
Bow and twist cannot be predicted from board thickness or planar
dimensions. Bow and twist are results of complex interactions of layup
grain orientation, board materials, copper densities, press temperature and
pressure, hold temperature and time, cooldown rates, etc, etc.
Certain pr
It sounds like your wave soldering process is not set up correctly. The
boards should be evenly heated through before wave soldering, then cooled
uniformly.
What you describe happens when the board is heated mostly on the solder
wave side, causing softening of the resin and differential expan
By all means, Yuri. We are always interested in improvements to PROTEL.
Regards,
Harry Selfridge
VP Engineering
Encore Engineering Services and Products
Anaheim, CA 92801
www.encoreengineering.com
At 02:56 PM 8/16/01 +0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The best way to customize Protel's
I can think of four easy things to try right-off-the-bat.
First - It has been my experience that failure of DXP to display an
imported .dwg or .dxf file is most often due to negative coordinate
elements in the drawing you are trying to import. Be sure that the zero
reference for the drawing is
If you have the schematic, you need to convert the DOS (SDT) schematic and
libraries to a newer format. See the Protel knowledge base for the steps
to take.
If you are trying to bring a raw ORCAD netlist into Protel99SE PCB, you
aren't going to be able to do it. If you think about it for a mi
Place a multilayer thru-hole pad with the hole size you want.
Edit the pad such that the pad is smaller than the hole, and uncheck the
"plated" box on the "advanced" tab. Making the pad smaller than the hole
causes the drilling operation to wipe out all copper from the hole on
internal signal
The size of the plane has less to do with noise introduction than the
location of the plane relative to the signal paths.
You should think of every signal as a complete loop. The ground (or power)
return side is as much a part of the signal path as the trace you normally
think about. If you c
The same old way still works -
1. Clear all selections in the PCB Layout Editor (just a safety measure).
2. Select the items you want to be in your component.
3. Copy the selected items (ctrl-Insert), be sure to click at you desired
origin point for the component (makes it easier).
4. Open a
You don't say whether or not you added the hole after you first ran a set
of Gerbers. If you went back after generating a Gerber set, did you
remember to generate a new aperture file that includes the hole
definition? Try selecting the pinprick you mention and see what D code is
assigned, the
Silver-through-hole (STH) is a fabrication process - not a PCB layout
process. The fab applies a silver conductive paste through the via holes
instead of copper plating the holes.
Discuss with your fab what they can do for you with regard to via hole
sizes using STH. Then lay out your board a
Hi Ray,
The spec for surface mount footprints is IPC-782A with amendments 1 and
2. Since you are in Government, you probably have a copy available in your
command library. If not, standards are for sale through www.ipc.org
At 09:36 AM 3/10/04, you wrote:
Hello,
I'm sure this is a repeat, but
Steve,
Two things come to mind that you might try.
First - make sure your printer driver is current. There have been numerous
problems that have been traced back to the printer driver.
Second (and not so obvious) - the video driver may be causing the crash. I
had similar problems a long time
The Gerber file extensions are listed in the Help Files under:
Index>Output, generating>Gerber File Output Setup>File Extensions Used to
Identify Each Gerber File. They are also in the printed Protel 99 manual
on page 610.
To view the files, you should use a Gerber editor such as Camtastic,
V
Still works here after upgrading from Acrobat 5 to Acrobat 6.
The name of the printer device has changed to "Adobe PDF", but everything
works the same.
What is it doing/not doing?
At 12:20 PM 5/13/04, you wrote:
Having trouble with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 professional and printing from Protel
99SE. I
The important sentence below is "These boards perform an extremely
important job..." My vote would be to have the boards remade, and to
ensure that the unpopulated boards pass inspection before population.
With respect to the existing boards - I'm skeptical that they can be stress
relieved at
It isn't an odd number of PAIRS that causes problems - it is an odd number
of LAYERS. There are some advanced fab techniques that can reliably
produce boards with odd number of planes or odd number of signal layers;
however, there are very few fabs I would trust to do it. You can sometimes
ge
The symptom you report happens if you don't have Windows Admin privileges
and install a program that uses Windows help. The necessary Registry
entries don't get made, and some existing entries get corrupted or deleted.
If you want to see the Registry entries involved, take a look at:
http://www
Take a look at Protel Knowledge Base item 3439. Ignore the title of the
item - when you get to step 4, you have the netlist differences displayed.
http://www.altium.com/protel/kb/kb_item.asp?ID=3439
At 12:21 PM 8/19/04, you wrote:
Does anyone know if DXP has a netlist comparison report? I know 9
I would have to agree with Matt. We've got Matrox cards running dual head
under Win98SE, Win2K, and WinXP. We have never, repeat never, had a driver
or graphics card problem with Matrox under Protel or any other Cad
program. Matrox is the ONLY graphics card brand about which I can make
that
You specify it the same way you specify any special requirement.
1. Call your fab and ask them what documentation they would like to see
for selective plating.
2. Put a note on the drill drawing referring to an outline box, circle,
etc. on the drill drawing that identifies the pads to be select
Your symptom is exactly what is seen when a primitive, designator, note,
etc. has gone off into never-never land. Often the problem is something at
a negative absolute coordinate (off the bottom left corner) - Protel
doesn't know what to do with negative absolutes.
Yes, you can select and copy
Did you accidentally toggle off "snap to grid"? Try hitting SHIFT-E to
toggle snap.
At 09:00 AM 9/3/04, you wrote:
I seem to be constantly enabling/disabling features inadvertently in 2004.
The latest is when manually placing a trace, I no longer get the happy
little circle when I am exactly on
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