I've just managed to get a PCB created under Protel and I'm struggling to get
the gerber output to match what's on the Protel screen. I've got several
components (that I've created myself) which use very small rectangular pads and
I've used these components at several angles all over the PCB.
Quoting Brad Velander [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Kiernan,
Ian's explanation below is correct. What you're seeing are drawn
pads rather then flashed rectangular pads. A major shortcoming of Protel
if
you are doing very fine or finicky work. As for your soldermask
encroachment, that will not
I'm still on my first PCB under P99SE. I need to add quite a few extra routes,
but the PCB is really dense. Can I route these on the InternalPlane layers?
Should I have used Polygon pours on ordinary layers instead? If I am allowed to
use the plane layers, then how can I tell whether I'm
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[Snip] Within a short time,
though, will come another entrepeneur who recognizes the void which Protel
has left, and fills it with tools which advance the state of the art, at a
price which fits the vast numbers of small shops which have been overlooked
by the
I just thought I'd throw you guys my 2c worth and another option.
Around 6 months ago I found myself in a position where I needed to do some
design work at home - we use Protel98 at work - so I downloaded the demo for
99SE and started to use it. Disapointingly, I came across the some of the
Out of curiosity, without commenting on all your points individually, have
you seen anything in Boardmaker that cannot be done, one way or another in
P99SE?
It depends how much you look to automating things. I have previously controlled
via tenting under BGAs by editing the gerbers in an
I got caught out on this myself, so I downloaded a gerber spec from the web
somewhere. Specifically, the line means:
%ADAperture description
D34Name of the aperture
P, It's a regular polygon
0.063X Size of the polygon
8X It's has 8 sides
0 NOT rotated
