At 11:48 AM 6/22/01 -0700, Brad Velander wrote:
>HuH?
> Well I tried that report function on the vias that you mention
>Abd-ul Rahman, it certainly doesn't make any sense to me because I just
>tried it on a board that has an outline and components entered but no
>routing done. It does report my Routing Via Style for the size however, it
>reports a via count of 30 when there were absolutely no vias in the design
>yet. None in component footprints either. So again I state, huh?
My thought exactly. As I wrote:
> > There is a report option under
> > Report/BoardInformation/Report, Net Via
> > Size. It is unclear to me what it does. It provides what
> > appears to be a
> > report of via outer diameter, but the information as to
> > diameter seems to
> > come from the Routing Via rule rather than from the vias themselves.
I could have added that the number reported seemed to have little relation
to the number of vias on the board. To repeat, I don't know what is being
reported. It may be a pure bug, or it may be that we don't understand the
intended function. I'm leaning toward the former. If it is the latter, it
could be said that the documentation is poor on this matter.
> As for the Routing Via Style check in the DRC rules, the text
>comments in the upper right of the DRC window state "The maximum and minimum
>via attributes are checked by the on-line and batch DRC." Obviously another
>in the long list of Protel lies.
Ahem. I prefer to reserve the use of the word "lie" for intentional
attempts to deceive through false statements. If a statement is false
without an intention to deceive, it would be at worst careless, or more
charitably, simply an error or oversight. I have found that people usually
respond rather badly when accused of lying.
When a program fails to function as it clearly states it will function,
either in the documentation or in on-screen information, that is a form of
bug. Protel would have to be phenomenally stupid to deliberately introduce
a bug. Obviously, whoever wrote the text comments in the dialog thought
that the Routing Via Style rule would function with DRC. It doesn't. This
should be fixed; either the program should be fixed so that it functions as
stated, which is preferred, or the text should be corrected so that users
are not misled.
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