Steve,
Okay, glad you found a cause, it is always annoying when you can't
figure out what happened to cause these little time wasting excursions.
On importing DXF into Protel, over the years I have developed my work
habits with DXF such that I seldom see problems anymore with importing DXF. A
few tips.
1) Explode everything to primitives, blocks are the fastest way to screw
up a Protel import of DXF.
2) Watch out for arcs that may have their center origins in negative
quadrant territory even though the arc is in the positive quadrant. i.e. A
large radius arc where it's center origin is greatly offset from the actual arc
towards a negative quadrant.
3) Always import as primitives on the Protel DXF import config window.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 11, 2005 7:36 AM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: RE: [PEDA] 99SE Polygon Pours
I managed to eliminate all but three pours. Fortunately, I have
duplicate channels so copy & paste made the process managable.
As it turns out, the problem surfaces when I import AutoCAD
drawings. I imported two .DWGs. First one, no (apparent) problem
... second one, Protel loses track of both polygon locations and
dimension locations. When I try a repour Protel shorts out to traces
that should be avoided. At any rate, I delete polygons, exit Protel,
repair database, move dimensions to correct location, repour
polygons and I'm back in the game.
Thanks for the help, Brad.
Regards,
Steve
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