Matt Daggett wrote: > > Today's one of those days you rather just ask than spend all day looking for > the answers yourself. > > (1) Why do I get a "Floating point division by zero" error and then > components disappear off my schematic even though their text/component > information are still on the page. Any way to fix this or stop the error > from happening?
Never had that happen to me. > (3) How hard is it to resize a PCB after its laid out and you want to add > more parts but there is no room left? No problem. The outlines on the keepout and Mech1 (or is is 4) layers are just tracks, and you can edit them like any other track. Protel doesn't keep any record of the dimensions you gave the board wizard when you started the board. What ultimately determines the board size is what you tell the board shop to make. > > (4) What's the easiest way to get the entire bottom of the board a solid > ground plane with just via's that go through the board when ground > connections are needed. Just a polygon associated with the net? If you want a solid ground plane, and don't have any through-hole parts, just use one of the internal plane layers - Protel doesn't care if you eventually tell the board shop to put that "internal plane" on the outside of the board. Note that the internal planes are plotted as negatives - anything you draw on them will result in missing copper on the board. You will normally want to draw a track around the edge of the board to pull the copper away from the edge. > > I'm using 99SE SP6 + Win2k on P4 2.0 Northwood, 1GB RDRAM, Ultra160 SCSI I/O, > nVidia Quadro2 > > thanks for the help, > > matt > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Matt Daggett > MCNC - Wireless Research Group > 3021 Cornwallis Road > Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 > voice: 919-248-9278 fax: 919-248-1455 > http://www.mcnc.org/wireless/ > --------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: 07933571EF7F94408EA3778DAE3CDAE3AFBA91EC * ************************************************************************ -- Peter Bennett TRIUMF 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada GPS and NMEA info and programs: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter/index.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
