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Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: ODBC Updated - DDBs now won't open!!!
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<DIV>Just to put this issue to bed I have finally fixed the problem.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mr Lomax provided a clue in his last reply...</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="" size=2>>I'd want to track that down. I'd search the Protel
ASCII database for <BR>>primitives with the coordinates of the error
(assuming that one has not <BR>>done something foolish like <U>centering the
gerbers </U>-- which I think is the <BR>>default). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="" size=3>The Gerbers were in fact centred (at the request of
our PCB manuf. - why is this foolish?).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="" size=3>This resulted in a discrepancy between Camtastic's
reported position of the 0-Radius arcs and their position within the Protel
file.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>With this understanding it was a simple to correlate the positions within
each file then Select Inside Area and Cut.</DIV>
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<DIV>Not only did this remove the error message pertaining to the 0-Radius arcs,
but my original ODBC error, the source of all my problems, departed also.</DIV>
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<DIV>It would appear that another engineer here recently modified some of the
assembly instructions contained in the Protel file without my knowledge, and not
speaking fluent Protel may have decided to set the arc radius to 0 rather than
delete them. I guess to his mind they weren't there anymore - job done.
<GRRRR!></DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks again everyone,</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>LINDEN DOYLE<BR>Product Development
Engineer<BR>Zener Electric Pty Ltd</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV>
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