Matthew Lamkin wrote: > > many snips for brevity < > > Using GC-Prevue > make any last minute modifications that I had missed, make With you on the rest, in spirit anyway, but if some- one here tries this we take them out back and shoot them. Not even a ceremony! Only because we've had to revise boards where someone had done this... > some alterations that my CAD package could not, Sure hope you have a scripting facility in that tool... > > Before you ask, yes I do actually run software that is paid for. Now all > I want is Linux, "Cadstar for Linux", etc. Again with you in spirit but hope you're not holding your breath! Back to topic, I've seen difficulties w/274X - and the more complex the artwork the more likely the troubles. Primarily talking from experience w/Cadence, who really did write their outputs ***EXACTLY*** to the spec, and many CAM packages didn't read the deep heirarchy that is implicit in complex files very well. This is improving over time as all packages evolve. Have not had troubles in recent history. Regards, -- Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879 jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800 ################################################################ 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's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################