Re: [PEDA] Printing drill marks on Gerber output

2001-05-07 Thread Mark Koitmaa
all pad diameters to desired drill guide hole size. 5. Generate a Gerber pad master. Mark Koitmaa, C.I.D. General Partner Certified Interconnect Designer TechServ Tel: 408-369-7950 Fax: 408-369-7952 http://www.techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post

Re: [PEDA] Printing drill marks on Gerber output

2001-05-07 Thread Mark Koitmaa
drill guide output as David mentioned. Mark Koitmaa, C.I.D. General Partner Certified Interconnect Designer TechServ Tel: 408-369-7950 Fax: 408-369-7952 http://www.techservinc.com At 11:41 AM 3/12/2001, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for your answer. But I did not succeed yet in making a hole master

Re: [PEDA] Camtastic or Protel?

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Koitmaa
drawing into your fabrication drawing. To do this, simply draw and dimension your panel with instructions for your fab house to step and repeat your CAM data. Mark Koitmaa, C.I.D. Certified Interconnect Designer TechServ Tel: 408-369-7950 Fax: 408-369-7952 http://www.techservinc.com At 11:37 AM

Re: [PEDA] Camtastic or Protel?

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Koitmaa
revisions! Mark Koitmaa, C.I.D. Certified Interconnect Designer TechServ Tel: 408-369-7950 Fax: 408-369-7952 http://www.techservinc.com At 12:16 PM 8/16/2001, you wrote: Thanks Dennis and Mark. Wouldn't you know it: the first two responses are opposite!! :) It's being submitted to a new facility

Re: [PEDA] a wish Save All

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Sounds like a reasonable request. In the meantime you might want to try enabling the 'read only' file attribute for your archived DDB files. This has the added benefit of faster shut down since read only DDBs are not compacted. Regards, Mark Koitmaa At 05:15 PM 12/11/2001, you wrote: i wish

Re: [PEDA] a wish Save All

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Koitmaa
That's an OS setting. Using Windows Explorer or equivalent, right click the DDB file and enable the Read-only check box. Mark Koitmaa At 06:14 PM 12/11/2001, you wrote: is that a protel setting or set it from the OS ? Dennis Saputelli Mark Koitmaa wrote: Sounds like a reasonable request

Re: [PEDA] Report Length of Selection

2002-01-24 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Brian, The capability has always been there but Protel forgot to include it in the menus. You can add it yourself by assigning the PCB:MeasureSelectedObjects process to a new menu item or button. BTW, the function works better now since it now accurately calculates lengths of curved tracks.

[PEDA] Designing Masks for LCD displays

2002-02-26 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Does anybody have experience or opinions about designing masks for LCD displays using Protel? Is this feasible? I'd appreciate any input. Thanks in advance. Mark Koitmaa, C.I.D. TechServ Tel: 408-369-7950 Fax: 408-369-7952 http://www.techservinc.com

Re: [PEDA] Designing Masks for LCD displays

2002-02-26 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Yes, exactly. I have a general idea of the requirements but don't know the details, such as type and format of CAM data required to manufacture the masks (these will be for 4 wafers). We may have a contract job for someone with this kind of experience. Mark Koitmaa, C.I.D. TechServ Tel: 408

Re: [PEDA] Pads with rectangular or square cutouts

2002-02-27 Thread Mark Koitmaa
connected to the plane and manually create thermal reliefs if necessary, otherwise the resulting Gerbers will have thermals that don't match the shape of the slot. Hope this helps. Mark Koitmaa, C.I.D. TechServ Printed Circuit Design Services Tel: 408-369-7950 Fax: 408-369-7952 http

Re: [PEDA] How To Make 99SE Usable?

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Koitmaa
rules for solder mask, power ground expansion and connect styles. This can slow down your system tremendously. If so, un-check the boxes for these rules, then manually create the rules you need after the wizard is complete. Hope this helps. Mark Koitmaa TechServ At 04:49 PM 9/10/2002, you wrote

Re: [PEDA] Inner pad feature

2002-09-17 Thread Mark Koitmaa
reducing the annular rings on the affected vias? Mark Koitmaa TechServ At 10:15 AM 9/17/2002, Mike Reagan wrote: One feature I would like to see in future releases or service packs is removal of inner pads before processing gerber data. In other terms inner pads would not be added to a via until

Re: [PEDA] 99SE Access database password

2002-09-19 Thread Mark Koitmaa
to a new database gives all the files a new time stamp. But it is much quicker. You can also use these methods to bypass the 'security' and permissions set up in a database. Mark Koitmaa TechServ At 01:59 PM 9/19/2002, you wrote: I have some 99SE databases (*.ddb) with open Sessions that won't go

Re: [PEDA] Overlay question

2003-08-16 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Gary- Protel does not provide that function in their EDA software but you can do it at the Gerber level using their CAM software. Just load your Gerber files into Camtastic and go to the 'Tools/Trim Silkscreen...' command. IMO though, its a waste of your time because most fabricators do this as

Re: [PEDA] License Legalities

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Tim- I'm not a lawyer but common sense tells me this isn't a software license issue. Assuming your employer is the legal licensed owner of the software, it is their right to tell you how you can use the software as long as it doesn't violate the software license and other laws. To be

Re: [PEDA] CTL key during routing placement electrical grid.

2003-10-09 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Brian- I've been using CTL-E to toggle the electrical grid on and off. Even that's been a hassle. Wish I'd known about the CTL key. Thanks though, better now than never! Mark Koitmaa At 09:44 AM 10/9/2003, you wrote: :(( !$#!$#!$%!#%$!#$%$%#$!#$%!$!$% Why hasn't anyone mentioned that whenever

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Koitmaa
I believe it is a driver issue. I haven't seen the display problem in years. I'm also using a Matrox G450, but I've reinstalled windows several times over the years and I don't remember if the drivers were taken from the Matrox CDROM or some other source. Mark Koitmaa At 01:17 PM 10/22/2003

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Koitmaa
schematic to display and pan without the disjointed graphics exhibited by past display cards that I've used. Mark Koitmaa At 03:21 PM 10/22/2003, you wrote: I believe it is a driver issue. I haven't seen the display problem in years. I'm also using a Matrox G450, but I've reinstalled windows

Re: [PEDA] Problems with ports

2004-01-06 Thread Mark Koitmaa
Phil, Go to the Tools/Preferences menu, then uncheck the Orcad (TM) Ports option. Mark At 06:04 PM 1/6/2004, you wrote: Hello, I'm having a schematic problem with 99SE SP6. Unexpectedly, and with no input on my part, all of my ports have changed length to suit the text that they contain and