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. ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################