Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-15 Thread Jeff Condit
marginal methods (even though they work most of the time) will eventually result in getting bit. Jeff Condit - Original Message - From: Abd ulRahman Lomax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:58 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch

Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-14 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 11:33 PM 5/13/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory, A 0 gap between two entites should be regard as connected, but it is very critical, especially in the tangent condition (Line to circle or arc, and so on), I think regard it as open is more reasonable. It should actually be caught by the

Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-13 Thread John Girvan
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not? Dear Members, P99SE, The gap between a track and a via is exact 0, DRC does not show this issue, obviously, It consider the track and the via is connected. Verify the gerber with IPC-D-356A netlist, also does not find this issue

Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-13 Thread Ian Wilson
On 09:04 AM 14/05/2004, John Girvan said: Luo, Were the track and via meant to be connected? If so, then the gerber files must have been adjusted during the manufacturing. Im not sure if im reading the problem right. I think that the problem is something like: 1) the track and via should have

Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-13 Thread ajenkins
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not? Dear Members, P99SE, The gap between a track and a via is exact 0, DRC does not show this issue

Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-13 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
Some comments about this. There really isn't a minimum copper DRC. There should be, it would not be terribly difficult. But there isn't. The problem situation, I read the same as Ian. A track was retracted from a via so that it terminated outside the via, but in contact with the via. This is

Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-13 Thread Luo . Yu-Ming
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not? I think the gap between entities suggests the gap between edge features on each entity, not between centers. While the entities MAY be touching within the virtual world, etch-back at the real-world board-house may mean that what you

[PEDA] 0 Gap Means Touch or Not?

2004-05-12 Thread Luo . Yu-Ming
Dear Members, P99SE, The gap between a track and a via is exact 0, DRC does not show this issue, obviously, It consider the track and the via is connected. Verify the gerber with IPC-D-356A netlist, also does not find this issue, But on the finish board, the track and the via is broken. So I got