Chris,
Reading the comments in this thread I did a little test this morning on
my system (P99SE SP6). I could not remember the details I had previously
observed, you just get used to doing whatever to takes to make it work mode.
Here is what I found.
Setting my default component options to bring in the Designator on Mech
1 and the Comment on Mech 2, setting specific font (Sans Serif) and font sizes
(40mils). Adding the component directly from the library the defaults were
followed for the layers, text font and text size. Adding a component to a
schematic and bringing it into the PCB through a PCB Update from the schematic,
the default component settings are ignored, designator and comment both default
to Top Overlay layer, font size defaults to 60 Mils, and the style is default.
So the Options Preferences settings are followed for components entered
to your PCB manually/directly from the library but the user set defaults are
not followed when updating components from the schematic update PCB process.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
#14 - 1925 Kirschner Road,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2232 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:20 PM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Default designator text sizes in Protel99SE?
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
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