Hello, I think there is a serious bug in pcb-20060822. If a new layer (outline for board manufacturer) is added, thermals vanish or similar strange things occur.
The story: I started my first gEDA board design 10 weeks ago using gschem, gsch2pcb and pcb-20060822. At that time gsch2pcb gave me a starting board with 6 copper layers (no layers unused1 and unused2 as in older releases). After finishing my layout, I noticed that an additional layer for board outline in necessary, so i added a new layer with preferences menu. This step seems to be buggy. I got a layout with missing thermals. I have not noticed this error when sending the gerbers to the board fabricator, so now I have a board with missing connections to ground planes. I think you can reproduce this bug if you use pcb-20060822 with a layout of your own and add an additional layer. Or you can download my gEDA layout from http://www.ssalewski.de/AVR_USB_gEDA.html.de and add a layer. There is currently no englisch version of this page, but you just have to scroll down and click on file AVR_USB_gEDA-20061016.tar.gz (36k) to download the archive. To use it, it may be necessary to insert in directory footprints a softlink to a directory which contains the footprints of John Luciani. (The gerbers with missing thermals are still available at http://www.ssalewski.de/boarddata.zip) If you can verify this bug: How can I add an outline layer to my data without destroing the layout. I hope I will not have to do the whole layout again starting with 8 layers! Best regards Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user