http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/ ACCEL EDA customers Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:04:51 GMT Scott Shepard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1583 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1583 In my experience with MD, ACCEL EDA, and now Orcad, FLAT schematics are the best way to go especially for the PCB designer that takes over the sch and for Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:54:07 GMT James O. Jackson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1582 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1582 ... Yes Bob, it is. I havewritten a program called DBX2INS that extracts the centroids from the ACCEL EDA database. It uses either the Absolute or Relative Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:13:48 GMT RBF@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1581 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1581 Is it possible to generate an output file for component locations using the relative grid? I would like to eliminate the offset and place the origin on the Thu, 22 Jan 1998 20:09:49 GMT Patrick Jabbaz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1580 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1580 Thanks that utility helped me quite a bit. The rotation did not affect the attached traces to the component. Wich was what I want it. ... From: Rob McCance Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:41:39 GMT Rob McCance http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1579 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1579 Not that this is an ultra-convenient solution but give the DBX application rotabs.exe (accel\utils) a double click and play with that. Best regards, Rob Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:11:00 GMT LaGue, Ross http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1578 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1578 Just a reminder about polygon pads... I have had to select "draw polygon pad/vias" in the gerber aperture assignments box in order to get them to photoplot Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:41:32 GMT B.M. Ezendam http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1577 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1577 I will add some problem to this. If the components is rather large and close the the side of the working space it is even impossible to turn it further on. Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:28:29 GMT Earl Riggs (IM) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1576 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1576 Patrick, You should have hit UNDO right away rather than continue the rotation. Earl Riggs (eriggs@...) ... From: Patrick Jabbaz To: EDA USERS Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:09:07 GMT Patrick Jabbaz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1575 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1575 I was wondering if there is a possible way to change the direction of rotation on the fly in Accel EDA 13 I as was rotating a componnet with traces attached, I Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:30:37 GMT Sandy Jones http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1574 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1574 Frank and Gary, Thanks for the info! That works quite nicely. I knew I was missing something. Sandy Jones Universal CADD ... and ... thought I ... Now ... to Thu, 22 Jan 1998 05:30:51 GMT Mark Corbridge http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1573 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1573 If anyone has a PCI connector in accel EDA with a schematic symbol and a PCB decal I would appreciate it if you could email it to me. Also if someone as a Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:45:50 GMT Frank Frank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1572 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1572 ... I was messing with this today. Create a polygon on the correct layer. Now add a reference point in the center of the pad. Now select both. Now go to Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:19:51 GMT Gary Loges http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1571 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1571 Sandy, its explained on page 634 of the Ver. 13 PCB manual(CD version or paper version). Gary Gary Loges Dallas Semiconductor gary.loges@... Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:03:19 GMT Sandy Jones http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1570 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1570 Jack, I just don't see how this is done do you? I tried it both with pours and polys' and it doesn't seem to allow you to paste it in although I thought I Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:25:12 GMT André Noël http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1569 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eda_users/message/1569 Hi I am afraid there are some confusing info here. There is the placement location and there is the pickup location all two related too the part. But there is