Re: [PEDA] Specctra 10.2 Interfaces with 99SE

2003-06-16 Thread Shuping Lew
t: Re: [PEDA] Specctra 10.2 Interfaces with 99SE 13/06/2003 22:51:09, Shuping Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have anybody use Protel99SE interfaces with Specctra 10.2? Yes - works fine. (Still the same old via hole size issues). I was forced to give Cadence a pile of money, si

[PEDA] Specctra 10.2 Interfaces with 99SE

2003-06-13 Thread Shuping Lew
interfaces with Specctra 10.2? Thank you very much... Shuping Lew Quintron Systems, Inc. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the

[PEDA] miter corners

2002-12-13 Thread Shuping Lew
y has experienced that problem, and any work around for that problem. Thank you for any reply in advance... Shuping Lew Quintron Systems, Inc * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: *

[PEDA] Fan out Vias

2002-10-16 Thread Shuping Lew
: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fan out Via clearance Shuping Lew wrote: > Jon, Thank you very much for your replied. > > Could you describe some more details? ---How to set up different grids > for Vias and traces? Grid setting for traces should be much smaller than > Via&#

Re: [PEDA] Fan out Via clearance

2002-10-15 Thread Shuping Lew
g good (and maybe adjust manually, too!), make a backup copy of your PCB, then change your grid/rules for track spacing, and run the autorouter will all the other passes checked, making sure you have "Lock all preroutes" checked. -Original Message- From: Shuping Lew [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Fan out Via clearance

2002-10-15 Thread Shuping Lew
--Original Message- From: Jon Elson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 12:38 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fan out Via clearance Shuping Lew wrote: > Hello, all, > > I am using Protel 99Se Auto router for fan out Vias. I'd like to have >

[PEDA] Fan out Via clearance

2002-10-15 Thread Shuping Lew
Hello, all, I am using Protel 99Se Auto router for fan out Vias. I'd like to have one trace go in between fan out vias. Is there a rule to set it up? Thank you very much! Shuping Lew Quintron Systems, Inc. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a me

[PEDA] Fan out vias from surface mount component pads

2002-10-09 Thread Shuping Lew
Never mind. I found the problem. Thank you. > -Original Message- > From: Shuping Lew > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:44 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Fan out vias from surface mount component pads > > Hi, all, > >

[PEDA] Fan out vias from surface mount component pads

2002-10-09 Thread Shuping Lew
happen. Design rules were set for 13/30 for via, 7mil trace w/ 6 mil clearance, and top and bottom layers only. Why doesn't it work? Am I missing something? I am using Protel 99SE. Thank you for any reply... Shuping Lew Quintron Systems

Re: [PEDA] AW: Polygon Plane clearance and SMD PADs design rule set up for Protel 99 SE

2002-08-20 Thread Shuping Lew
Dear Waldemar, Thank you for your replied. I tried the first comment, it works. Thank you. I still have problem setting up SMD pads to polygon connection. Here is what I did: Design rule/manufacturing/polygon connect style, I tried to use Pad Specification as filter. There is no Object Type

[PEDA] Polygon Plane clearance and SMD PADs design rule set up for Protel 99 SE

2002-08-19 Thread Shuping Lew
Hello, All, I need to put a polygon plane on the bottom layer. 1. I'd like to set up the clearance of the plane different from the regular trace of the board, which is 12mil instead of 7 mil for regular trace connection. 2. I also like to set up the polygon connects to fan out via instead of di

[PEDA] Polygon Plane clearance and SMT PAD

2002-08-15 Thread Shuping Lew
Hello, All, I need to put a polygon plane on the bottom layer. 1. I'd like to set up the clearance of the plane different from the regular trace of the board, which is 12mil instead of 7 mil for regular trace connection. 2. I also like to set up the polygon connects to fan out via instead of di

Re: [PEDA] Removing areas of power planes

2002-07-17 Thread Shuping Lew
For rectangular shape, just simply use PLACE/FILL to place a filling to negative layer. To place other shapes, use PLACE/POLYGON, set up grid size equal or smaller than track width to get a solid plane. Hope this will help. Shuping -Original Message- From: Watnoski, Michael [mailto:[EMAI

[PEDA] Impedance Control. What can Protel do? And what should I do?

2002-06-12 Thread Shuping Lew
w how to start. Can you give me some basic steps or guidelines for this topic? P.S. It is 6 layers board(4 signal and 2 planes). Impedance is 100 ohms. Thank you very much! Shuping Lew Quintron Systems, Inc * Tra

Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug?

2002-04-17 Thread Shuping Lew
Thank you. ABD. I like the idea. Shuping -Original Message- From: Abd ulRahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:21 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug? At 02:40 PM 4/17/2002 -0700, Shuping Lew wrote

Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug?

2002-04-17 Thread Shuping Lew
I use some notes on every schematic project. So I created a schematic symbol named "note" for it. To avoid the warning of missing footprint, I also created a footprint named "blank" to associate with that symbol. For some reason, Protel does not like the footprint "Blank"(there is not primitive on

Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug?

2002-04-17 Thread Shuping Lew
Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug? At 10:13 AM 4/17/2002 -0700, Shuping Lew wrote: >---I created netlist for each sheets. There are total 25 sheets. I then >loaded them individaully. There were no problem. If the problem was, for example, that you had an inc

Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug?

2002-04-17 Thread Shuping Lew
Dear ABD, First of all, yes, I would strongly suspect a bug, though a damaged executable is a possible but unlikely culprit. Mr. Wilson is correct, it should not be possible to cause an access violation with bad (or good) netlist data. One factor not stated so far: did the Schematic pass a ful

Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug?

2002-04-16 Thread Shuping Lew
ccess violation -- Is it a Protel bug? On 03:23 PM 16/04/2002 -0700, Shuping Lew said: >I tried to load a netlist file to PCB. It has over 1,100 components. I >receiced a warning of access violation. It says: Access Violation at address >OF086CC6 module Exception Occurred in PCB: N

Re: [PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug?

2002-04-16 Thread Shuping Lew
t itself having duplicate Identifiers first. It only takes one. Brian At 03:23 PM 4/16/02 -0700, you wrote: > > > -Original Message- >From: Shuping Lew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:51 PM >To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject:

[PEDA] FW: Access violation -- Is it a Protel bug?

2002-04-16 Thread Shuping Lew
Warning Unable to process data: multipart/mixed;boundary="=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1E55A.A530A310"

Re: [PEDA] Excel to Protel Schematic

2002-04-09 Thread Shuping Lew
Thank to everybody. I tried it out. It works! Save me some time. Shuping -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:46 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Excel to Protel Schematic You could use a screen capture and just

Re: [PEDA] Excel to Protel Schematic

2002-04-08 Thread Shuping Lew
, Shuping Lew said: >Does anybody know how to import a Microsoft Excel 2000 format file into >Protel Schematic? Shuping, Can you explain what you mean by "import and Excel file into Sch"? Do you mean just import component attributes (part type, footprint etc) or do you mean

[PEDA] Excel to Protel Schematic

2002-04-08 Thread Shuping Lew
Hello, there. Does anybody know how to import a Microsoft Excel 2000 format file into Protel Schematic? Thank you. Shuping Quintron Systems, Inc * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://ww

Re: [PEDA] Bring out un-connected pins

2001-12-18 Thread Shuping Lew
Thanks. Ian. -Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:50 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Bring out un-connected pins At 03:55 PM 17/12/01 -0800, you wrote: >Hello, all. >I recalled the same question was discussed coup

[PEDA] Bring out un-connected pins

2001-12-17 Thread Shuping Lew
Hello, all. I recalled the same question was discussed couple weeks ago but I couldn't find those e-mail anymore. How should I set up the design rule so I can get rid of all the violations for bring out any unconnected pins to vias? Thank you very much. Susan Lew Quintron Systems, Inc. *

Re: [PEDA] How to change Netlist lines back to solid lines?

2001-12-14 Thread Shuping Lew
lid there. You could try Protel support, too; or reinstall. Dwight. -Original Message- From: Shuping Lew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:04 PM No, The board is placed but not rounted yet. But I did load the netlist into the PCB few times. At first the net

Re: [PEDA] How to change Netlist lines back to solid lines?

2001-12-13 Thread Shuping Lew
nets which causes the ratsnest line to turn into a dashed line. Regards, Casey Vanderweide. - Original Message - From: "Shuping Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:15 AM Subject:

Re: [PEDA] How to change Netlist lines back to solid lines?

2001-12-13 Thread Shuping Lew
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia ___ "Shuping Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/13/2001 04:06:41 AM Please respond to "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" &

[PEDA] How to change Netlist lines back to solid lines?

2001-12-12 Thread Shuping Lew
Warning Unable to process data: multipart/mixed;boundary="=_NextPart_000_0004_01C182F4.B2BF7F10"

Re: [PEDA] Schematic hetero capabilities?

2001-10-23 Thread Shuping Lew
The problem I ran into is designator annotation when different kind of graphic multi-part component is made. Protel can not identify which parts are belong to the same component. It will go U1A, U1B...then U2A, U2B...Sometime it brings in the wrong part. Any work around? Thanks. Susan Quintron