Interesting. I'm wondering if SP6 effectively freezes the defaults at whatever they were when it was applied. I do remember several years ago, before SP6, I was able to make the defaults operate properly all the time.
I spent about an hour digging around the various files with Grep and a binary reader. It looks like the true defaults are in the advpcb.dll, and are read out into advpcb.dft when you tell it to save. It appears they don't truly get loaded back in from the advpcb.dft file like they're supposed to. Perhaps I'll remove SP6 to test this out... Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Default designator text sizes in Protel99SE? > Chris, > > this works for me in P99SE SP6. What does not work for is the default > layer for Designators and Comments. Whatever I do they always come up on > top overlay by default, though I am trying to put them by default on one > of the mech layers. > > Igor > > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Mon, >> 9 Jul 2007 15:27:27 -0700> Subject: [PEDA] Default designator text sizes >> in Protel99SE?> > When using the "update PCB" tool in 99SE, the default >> text size for the component designators and comment in PCB is 60mils >> height with a 10mil line width. This can be changed easily enough in the >> PCB defaults which updates the advpcb.dft file in the Protel install >> directory. It does this correctly, and the advpcb.dft can be edited in >> notepad as well, however it never applies the new default settings. This >> seems to be exclusive to the two setting above, everything else seems to >> work correctly. I can change them afterwards, but cannot get them to load >> into PCB automatically. I've done a lot of digging and it seems others >> have come across this as well, but I've never seen a fix posted.> > Was >> this ever solved? What was the fix?> > Thanks,> > Chris> > >> ____________________________________________________________> 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]> > _________________________________________________________________ > News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! > http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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] > > ____________________________________________________________ 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]
