- Original Message -
From: Anthony Whitesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Ground Planes
Rene,
There is a big difference between a plane and a polygon fill. Planes
don't
get repoured unlike polygons
At 07:46 AM 1/2/2002 -0500, Sean James wrote:
Be careful with planes. I made a pallet of 2 boards, and two of the planes
changed nets. If I didn't catch it reviewing the gerbers, BOOM! Instant
shorts.
I want to underscore this. Protel is not set up to combine PCBs, the most
serious problem
Hello everyone,
In Protel everything is connected by a net. Fine. When you go to lay tracks
on boards (If you let Protel do some of the work by auto routing) connects
like nets in a pin to pin fashion. I know I can configure some of the
routings in the design rules section. But here is my
Since the plane takes a long time drawing/refreshing, I
usually place the plane as last action.
I finish the layout without plane, then save it and copy
to a new name usually 'mydesign_WP.pcb', eg adding the _WP
postfix. Then I pour the plane. If the fill is not complete,
eg there are holes, a
At 02:21 PM 12/28/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you're using SMT pads, you need to either place vias in pads or
run stringers off the pads to vias, depending on the capabilities of your
board house.
The problem with via-in-pad is not in fabrication of the board; rather it
can cause
