Hi Al, Did you try to find out where this "FIGURE" is on the board? find out the X,Y location, then maybe you can try to expand the drawing size to include this X,Y. I can't think of any other way. Good luck Soledad Attia -----Original Message----- From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of alan fisch Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:27 AM To: pcb forum Subject: [PCB_FORUM] FIGURE OUT OF EXTENTS??? Hello guru's In this new design I'm working on I have come across a previously unseen error. "FIGURE OUT OF EXTENTS". Specifically what it means I'm not sure. Thats why I'm writing. I used to be able to place one part near another or even overlap them temporarily. Now, I can't just drop the component anywhere it has to be free of other place-bound shapes. One person has suggexted to expand the drawing size, which I did but to no avail. I am using several large thru-hole components on this job but that shouldn't make a difference. This board also has a very odd shape and all components are rotated to to an odd angle. If you saw it you'd understand...;-) The board has the shape of a small axe... mixed smt/tht, 6 laters, no BGA's, not high speed. I have also taken former artwork for this design and made dxf's out of them. Then I imported the dxf and made one .dra (format type) of each layer converted to an dummy layer in Drawing Format. This doesn't seem to make adifference because I deletd them thinking they were the cause of the error and the error persists. I'm using Allegro Studio 15.2 Any ideas????? help! Al --------------------------------- Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at http://www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to http://www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------