Gregg,

Use another board house!  Any competent CAD operator at the board house
should have caught the fact you had no power plane connections.  I
recommend finding a board house you can rely on to help you achieve a
successful PWB.

Steve Hawn
Precision Digital Images


Gregg Klawson wrote:
>
> We just had a couple of PWB types built incorrectly due to bad electronic
> data being sent to our board houses.  Unfortunately we did not catch either
> problem until we had fully assembled the boards.
>
> Problem A was due to the wrong aperture file being sent out resulting in no
> power plane connections.   Problem B was due to an old design tool which
> did not show a "filled in" power plane which was required.  No netlist data
> was available for either design.
>
> We would like to continue with an all electronic process but need some
> fool-proof checks that will detect if we send some incorrect file(s)/data
> or our board house does something wrong.  I'm sure companies are doing this
> sucessfully all the time (and all electronic).  How are people making this
> process work well for them?
> ---
> Gregg Klawson
> GTE Government Systems Corp, Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
> [log in to unmask], telephone +1.508.880.1822
>
> The views expressed are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the
> official position of GTE or any of its subsidiaries.

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