This was discussed on the list around 1/25/02. There was a note from
someone indicating that Camtastic has a bug related to path length; here's
the text:
"To stop this from occurring, you need to keep the entire path name, from
the drive letter to the last character of the filename's extension
(
G'Day Emanuel (and others):
No experience with this specifically, but I've learnt from bitter experience
that spaces in filenames are a Bad Idea(tm), period. I don't care what
application you're using, as soon as you put spaces in filenames you open up
a whole can of worms when you're trying to a
It seems that not only spaces in footprints can cause trouble but in filenames
also. Yesterday I generated my cam-files from a pcb-file that I had saved with
"save as..." from the file menu. This by default changes the filename to "copy
of xyz.pcb". The Gerbers generated from this file seem to
At 03:07 PM 3/13/2002 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
>I was ver disappointed to find out that Protel provides no way to
>do this.
Well, I think there is a way, but I have to go out of town for four days. I
have some schematics to translate to see if it works, but the path is
basically to write the Tan
Also useful on the same token:
http://www.aracnet.com/cgi-usr/gpatrick/trace.pl
And a very robust set of free tools: http://www.ultracad.com/calc.htm
-- Matt
At 09:14 AM 3/14/2002 +1100, you wrote:
>Have a look at:
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protel-users/files/
>
>Find
At 05:29 PM 3/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I would love to see a library of schematic symbols and footprints for the
>parts in the Digikey catalog like ORCAD did. I am often putting together a
>quick proof of concept prototype and I always need something I don't have
>so I have to build symbols a
I would love to see a library of schematic symbols and footprints for the
parts in the Digikey catalog like ORCAD did. I am often putting together a
quick proof of concept prototype and I always need something I don't have
so I have to build symbols and footprints. Is there another source of
l
Have a look at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protel-users/files/
Find a file called amptrack.exe (not sure if it's the one you were after).
> -Original Message-
> From: Sean James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2002 11:22 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: [P
Sometimes I get a little brain dead.
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From: "Tony Karavidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Push & shove
> Shift-R
>
> (It's on the online help)
>
> Tony
>
>
> > -Orig
Bob Wolfe wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is there any way to import an older Tango Schematic into Protel.
> The Tango schematic is in binary format, and all I really need to
> do is print out this schematic. Any help would be appriciated.
> Or does anyone have Tango and be willing to output these 3 pages int
Shift-R
(It's on the online help)
Tony
> -Original Message-
> From: Sean James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:30 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: [PEDA] Push & shove
>
>
> Is there an easy way to toggle between "Avoid obstacle" and "Push
> Obstac
Sean James wrote:
> Does anybody have a +3V and a -2.5V power port schematic button graphic
> created?
You can create these in a few minutes. You can pull the existing icons
into
paint and change the numbers, and put the new icons back with the rest of
them. Then, you use the big down arrow on
Is there an easy way to toggle between "Avoid obstacle" and "Push Obstacle"?
Sean James
PCB Designer
Telecast Fiber Systems
102 Grove Street
Worcester, MA 01603
TEL 508-754-4858 x33
FAX 413-541-6170
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Hi everyone,
We have only installed Protel 99SE SP6 this year on our network, and I have
just starting introducing the pcb editor to the students.
I am not a network IT person but will attempt to describe the problem(s).
Most of the students had a problem showing itself when we browsed pcb
li
At 06:36 AM 3/13/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Ah, but the radius of curvature at the "corners" is much smaller, leading to
>a stress point for peel to start, which is what started this discussion.
>Protel's version of rounded pads are actually better in that respect.
For a pad with x >
At 06:49 AM 3/13/2002 -0600, Bryn Wolfe wrote:
>I think we're getting a little too much of the old school of thought here.
Hmm... the "old school of thought" was that documentation and references
should be clear and unambiguous. No, we don't have enough of the old
school, not too much.
> Not
Does anybody have a +3V and a -2.5V power port schematic button graphic
created?
Sean James
PCB Designer
Telecast Fiber Systems
102 Grove Street
Worcester, MA 01603
TEL 508-754-4858 x33
FAX 413-541-6170
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Kiernan,
Ian's explanation below is correct. What you're seeing are drawn
pads rather then flashed rectangular pads. A major shortcoming of Protel if
you are doing very fine or finicky work. As for your soldermask
encroachment, that will not be an issue because the soldermask pad will be
d
Bryn,
I cannot recall exactly what the problem is but Protel does have
some issue with lower case letters in library parts. Again this is something
that forced me to change a bunch of library part/footprint names shortly
after starting to use Protel. It fails at some less then everyday fun
Hi Joe
I don't know if this is an option for you, but we use an old copy of Protel
ver 2.8 to convert old Dos generated gerbers into Protel databases .
It does a much better job of importing gerber than any of the new and
improved versions.
274x files will import
without a hitch as long as the co
Kiernan
What you are getting is drawn pads. Protel doesn't export flash pads in
anything other 90 degree rotation it draws them with a round trace instead
(which is why you are seeing the rounded corners)
Some gerber programmes will allow a custom aperture to give a flash pad at a
variety of ang
Joe
I have a WORD macro to convert it is a but cumbersome but it does work.
It will take a while to find it but if you wish you can have it.
Ian
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From: "Joe McCauley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:22
Kiernan,
You may have produced the components pads with a "fill" area rather then
a pad definition. A fill area would be painted by available round
apertures (gerber legacy) resulting in radii at the corners. A pad is
defined in the gerber data as a particular shape and is "flashed" at
it's origin
Like Mike I've had better results with DXF file imports.
If you would like to talk to someone who knows Camtastic,
send a e-mail to Danny Carr ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). He says he helped developed
Camtastic and is very knowledgable about it.
Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Ene
I've just managed to get a PCB created under Protel and I'm struggling to get
the gerber output to match what's on the Protel screen. I've got several
components (that I've created myself) which use very small rectangular pads and
I've used these components at several angles all over the PCB. W
Joe,
I havent tried the gerber import in Protel (from Camtasic) however, if you
can not import the Camtastic gerbers, export them to dxf in Camtk, then
import them as dxf in Protel. We have dont this often with good results
Mike Reagan
EDSI
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From: Joe McCauley <[
Abd ul-Rahman,
I think we're getting a little too much of the old school of thought
here. Not allowing lowercase is just too primative. If you're going to
take away the spaces, give me my lowercase. To avoid the
filename-in-quotations-because-of-spaces problem I rarely use spaces and
instead
I lost this program when my OS crashed. Does anybody know where I can find
it again?
Sean James
PCB Designer
Telecast Fiber Systems
102 Grove Street
Worcester, MA 01603
TEL 508-754-4858 x33
FAX 413-541-6170
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> I'm not fond of lower case Ls. There is also a problem with O and zero
> which is not so easy to solve, unless it is insisted that zero have a slash.
I don't suppose anybody's got a non-ambiguous font, have they? (needs to
be non-proportional and
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