Hi Dave, You can avoid the Protel ASCII decoder issue by using Protel (what ever version you got) to generate Gerbers of the board. Chances are a test house can work with gerbers directly for extracting test point co-ords. Or use a Gerber Editor to load the layer with testpads on it and copy only these pads to new layer. - Gerber is an easy format to decode. - Some gerber editor packages can export test pad info. cheers Jamie Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:56:43 +0100 From: Dave Roseman < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEDA] Protel PCB ASCII file structure To: [email protected] Message-ID: < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi, I have an ASCII file generated from a PCB design, designed in a DOS version of Protel, which I am trying to get through an In Circuit Test procedure, and I need to decode what the data in the file denotes, specifically the layer information for test pads. It seems that all of the testpads have been placed on Drill Layer 0, and should be on layer Bottom A snippet of the file is shown below: COMP TP523 PINNE PINNE 9630 14734 60 16 10 8 9630 14734 60 16 10 8 9630 14734 1 2 2 CP 9630 14734 40 25 1 32 1 13 PIN ENDCOMP Is anyone able to help me out with identifying the elements in this file, or can point me to somewhere which will give me a detailed breakdown Thanks Dave Roseman ------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
