Duane Foster wrote:

>Good point...  also you could change the width of the keepout lines to get 
>your clearance around the edge of the board...  more than one way to skin a 
>cat depending on where you want to end up...
>
>duane
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M P
>>Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 4:46 AM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fwd: 99SE PCB Component gone afar.
>>
>>
>>Duane,
>>
>>if you setup a clearance rule between keepout object kind and 
>>whole board, 
>>you could have outlines on keepout layer identical to real 
>>board outlines 
>>(probably found on some other layer).
>>
>>Igor
>>
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>>
>>>From: "Duane Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Reply-To: Protel EDA Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>>To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <[email protected]>
>>>Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fwd:  99SE PCB Component gone afar.
>>>Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:59:04 -0700
>>>
>>>If I use the autorouter, then I usually draw the keepout 
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>>>
>>inside of the 
>>    
>>
>>>actual board outline.  So I have usually used the drill 
>>>      
>>>
>>drawing layer for 
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>>
>>>the board outline.  This is 99SE and earlier of course.
>>>
>>>duane
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 
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>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:53 PM
>>>>To: [email protected]
>>>>Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fwd: 99SE PCB Component gone afar.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>All/anyone...
>>>>
>>>>Just for curiosity's sake, isn't the keepout layer the
>>>>proscribed layer
>>>>for defining board outlines? It's been quite a while (20
>>>>years) but as I
>>>>recall, Protel manuals specified use of the keepout layer for
>>>>just that
>>>>purpose in their tutorials.
>>>>
>>>>aj
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>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Elson
>>>>>Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:09 PM
>>>>>To: Protel EDA Discussion List
>>>>>Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fwd: 99SE PCB Component gone afar.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>David Cary wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>Dear Brad Velander,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thank you. This is something I will add to the FAQ.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>http://massmind.org/techref/app/pwb_design_flow.htm#placement_FAQ
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>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>David Cary
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On 4/13/06, Brad Velander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>... Used to be that when I updated a PCB and it brought in
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>the new components, they were typically in the very top right
>>>>>quadrant of the working space (to hell and gone).
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I don't know what has changed but more recently I get the
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>components coming in just to the right and upwards from my
>>>>>board outline.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       Actually I just thought of what it could have been
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>that changed for me. Do you use the keepout layer for your
>>>>>board outlines? Here at my new employer that is something I am
>>>>>now doing different than previously, we use the Keepout layer
>>>>>for our board outline. I will have to test that, previously I
>>>>>used Mech Layer 1 for my board outlines and typically had
>>>>>nothing on the keepout layer.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>Yes, if the keepout border exists, the parts hug to the right
>>>>>of it.  If no keepout primitives are found, then the parts go
>>>>>to the upper right edge of the workspace, kind of out in 
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>neverland.
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>>
>>>>>Jon
>>>>>
>>>>>
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I had a problem with this. One fab house took my 200 mil keepout, which 
I intended as a power plane setback, as board edge, thereby shaving PCB 
size. They automatically apply a standard setback. Now I use keepouts 
only in-house, and draw setbacks as (negative) lines on the plane layers.

Graham Brown.

 
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