Tony, Alfonso and enyone who might care, shure you are able to view gerber files by reemport them into Protel. And I fell into that trap! For Protel read its own mistakes as good files. As discussed here some weeks ago Protel has a wrong definition of octagonal Pads (they are rotated about 22,5 degrees) so if you use is in a Polygon, and the maufacturer use it like it is, it shorts everything! If you use Protel for viewing your gerber-files you will not see this error, in Camtastic or other viewers you will. So I prefer external viewers. And for beeing completely shure I use a viewer that is not sold with the EDA-System. Spell: Graphicode or other freeware.
regards Waldemar > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:51 AM > To: 'Protel EDA Forum' > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Viewing gerber files > > <-- snipp --> > I've had very good success with this even > though some people > complain that it isn't good to use a viewer from the same > people that > made the generator. I think that thinking might be faulty, > because they > were probably fairly independent developments. Now that Protel has > Camtastic, they have two solutions for you. (Camtastic was > supplied with > P99 or was it P99SE??) > > Tony * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
