Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:25 PM 12/13/01 -0800, Brad Velander wrote: But abd ul-Rahman, do you want to edit approx. 200+ lines and curves making up the board outline to adjust them to some other offset for use as the keepout? I didn't think so. I also have to do this for 4 variations in board outlines where

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-13 Thread Sean James
: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC Rene others, it is timely that Sean raised this issue because I have been fighting with related issues. In my case I have a very complex board outline where I have copied the board outline to the bottom layer and made

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-13 Thread Brad Velander
] Keepouts DRC Some suggestions that may or may not be appropriate/helpful -- -- if the keepout is just to control polygons, maybe it'd help other problems to make it VERY thin, say .001 mil? -- somewhat similarly, if holes just need to touch the keepout (not actually overlap), then you might

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:38 AM 12/13/01 -0800, Brad Velander wrote: Dwight, the holes must overlap the outline otherwise the holes do not result in any additional opening to allow the square corners into the inner radiused corners of the board outline. This is a square peg trying to fit into a round

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-13 Thread Brad Velander
ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:02 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC There you go again, Brad, thinking in the box. Yes, the holes overlap the actual board outline. But there is no rule that says that the board outline

[PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-12 Thread Sean James

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-12 Thread Rene Tschaggelar
You can draw a track manually over a keepout line. The DRC signals a violation and you ignore it. Is that what you want ? Rene -- Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com Sean James wrote: Is there any way to ignore or bypass keepouts during a DRC? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-12 Thread Brad Velander
: www.norsat.com -Original Message- From: Rene Tschaggelar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:06 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC You can draw a track manually over a keepout line. The DRC signals a violation and you ignore

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-12 Thread Dwight Harm
Some suggestions that may or may not be appropriate/helpful -- -- if the keepout is just to control polygons, maybe it'd help other problems to make it VERY thin, say .001 mil? -- somewhat similarly, if holes just need to touch the keepout (not actually overlap), then you might be able to move

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-12 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:27 AM 12/12/01 -0500, Sean James wrote: Is there any way to ignore or bypass keepouts during a DRC? A keepout which is ignored is not a keepout; I concur that it is dangerous to set up DRC to ignore them, assuming that you can, I haven't tried. A case in which one might be tempted to do

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC

2001-12-12 Thread Dennis Saputelli
To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Keepouts DRC You can draw a track manually over a keepout line. The DRC signals a violation and you ignore it. Is that what you want ? Rene -- Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com Sean James wrote: Is there any way to ignore