Perhaps you have something located at a large offset in the second file you loaded. If this were the case, a zoom to full screen on the second layer would require a zoom out. This could also explain the GC-Preview error.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:04 AM > To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [kicad-users] Large offset in Gerbers & strange > behaviour in GerbView > > I am using build 2008-0416-r982 and have run into a problem. > I place my components and ran FreeROUTE. It did quite well with only > one trace unrouted. I manually routed the remaining trace and saved. > Unfortunately I now see two problems. First, when I start Gerbview > and load the edges layer, the edges show full screen. When I Inc > layer and load Gerber file, the next layer shows zoomed way out. This > is a minor problem since I can zoom in. My big problem is that when I > check the Gerbers using another program, GC-Preview, I get an error > message XY value in file ... exceeds allowable range. Try again using > offsets of -5911.80000 inches X, 0.000000 inches Y? > > Anyone have some ideas? I am not sure if this is caused by Kicad beta > or FreeROUTE. > > Thanks, > Doug > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before > posting your question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by > the creator of Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to > contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development > questions visit the kicad-devel group at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links > > >
