Steve,
My only concern is that our fab house or for that matter stencil house
should not be in trouble as I forced our layout house to switch from 274D to
274X and I don't need any trouble.
re,
Ken Patel
At 05:25 PM 3/23/99 EST, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>In a message dated 3/23/99 1:52:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
>writes:
>
>> I have received a gerber file in RS274-X format but I still can find about 5
>> undefined apertures when opened using PCGerberview tool.
>>
>> Any reason, why I am not getting 100% embedded aperture.
>>
>> re,
>> Ken Patel
>
>Hi Ken,
>
> I use some shareware called Lavenir Viewmate, and occasionally I'll get a
>file that'll do the same thing...sort of. When I load it, a pop-up window
>comes up and tells me how many apertures it recognized, and how many it
>didn't. You then have to press okay for the program to continue. With the
>files I've gotten that would not have 100% recognition ie: 110 recognized, 6
>unrecognized, once I've pressed okay, another window will pop-up and tell me;
>"Zero-length draws found, map to custom aperture?" and I can press either yes
>or no. If I press yes there will be these huge circles (usually) that obscures
>almost everything in the rest of the gerber, if I press no everything comes up
>fine.
>
>So (I'm kinda guessing here), that yes there may some apertures that aren't
>loading, but maybe they're not supposed to...for whatever reason. Why there
>would be apertures in a gerber file that's not supposed to be used I have no
>clue...but I've had files like that before...
>
>-Steve Gregory-
>
>
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