Re: gEDA-user: Configuring layer colors and "route style" in PCB

[Stefan Dröge <gecko4ever@xxxxxx>]

Bill WIlson schrieb:
> On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:16:49 +0100
> Stefan Dröge <gecko4ever@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > I worked me through the tutorial and wanted to make a file element in 
> > PCB. Thereto I clicked on the "Route Style" button and wanted to change 
> > the size of "Via hole" to "40". But I just can't make it bigger than "36".
> > I tried a little around and found out that the maximum sizes depend on 
> > which "Route style" (Signal, Power, Fat...) I choose before clicking 
> > "Route style". Is this "normal", and if not, how can I change this?
>
>
> There's a hardwired MIN_PINORVIACOPPER which is 4 mils, so you
> can't make your hole bigger than the via diameter - 4 mils.  Maybe it should
> be radius - 4 mils? and maybe it should be configurable, but anyway,
> just increase the hole diameter, click OK, and bring up the route style
> editing again and you should be able to increase the hole size.  It's
> a bug that you can't increase both in tandem within the same edit.
>
> Bill

Yes, that solved the problem. Perhaps this should be noted in the 
tutorial. Also in the tutorial is the via hole size changed before the 
via size.

Thanks a lot!