This is a well known Protel bug. Octagonal pads are off by 22.5 degrees of rotation in Gerber files.
The choices are: 1) Don't use octagonal pads 2) Have your board house fix your Gerber files by rotating all octagonal pads 22.5 degrees. 3) Do the fix yourself using a Gerber editor. John Williams ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kulajew Waldemar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ProtelForum (E-Mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 6:24 AM Subject: [PEDA] Gerber woes Hello all. Is there any GerberGURU out there? I got a call from my board house just some minutes ago. They tells me the extended gerber file I send them is buggy. There seam to be an octagonal pad showing up rotated with 22,5 degrees. That, naturally, causes shorts to the surrounding Polygon. In fact it seams to be in the extended gerber file itself. Caused by the line " %ADD34P,0.063X8X0*% " in the header,. So here is my question: has anybody out there heard about a similar behavior? And is there a workaround? Yes I know one: do not use octagnal pads. ;-) But is there an other? Just wanted to push up the traffic on PEDA-forum before I jump into my weekend. ;-) Any advice appreciate when I comme back to fight with the Problems on Monday morning. Cheers, Waldemar * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
