Re: gEDA-user: Clearing vias (Was: Last code sprint's IRC log and pictures)

[Christoph Lechner <cl0023@xxxxxxx>]

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Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2007 09:32, Christoph Lechner wrote:
>> Exactly. If you draw a track in Protel, its ends are "rounded"; it adds
>> a filled circle with diameter=track width to the end points
> 
> Which has the really annoying effect of giving you a rounded end
> poking out of a pad when you enter the pad from the other side.
> Sometimes resulting in DRC errors. 
> Protel/DXP snaps to the center point of the pad, and the rounded end doesn't
> always end where the pad does and gets close to the next
> pad of a device.
Never seen that. Of course my artwork should be a snap for PCB tools.
The most 'extreme' artwork style I use is 2 layer PCB with 10/10mil
rules. Not that hard. But, before I let some PCB fab commit my stuff on
FR4, I want to do a prototype board on my own.

> 
>> You can move things around as you like. Then once you need the polygon
>> rebuild, you double click the polygon plane and a dialogue pops up,
>> showing the parameters used when you first created that fill. Then you
>> click OK and it recomputes the plane. The baseline is that it isn't done
>> automagically at all, you have to do it as you want/need.
> 
> Because it is slow and crash prone in my experience with it.
Thats right. Whenever I work with Protel, I begin a new file about every
two hours as file corruption happens sometimes. But it's M$ Windoze
software :) Somewhat OT, BTW.

- - C. Lechner
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