[PCB_FORUM] Re: Too many text sizes

Doug,
 
If you are using V15.2 see below try "Compact"
 
 

Text Setup Dialog Box


Use this dialog box to assign display characteristics to text in a
design This dialog box provides 64 blocks of text that can be used in a
design. All sizes are specified in user units.

        Text Blk 
        Identifies the text block by number. When you add text to a
design, you enter the number of the text block you want to use in the
Options tab of the Control Panel. 

        Width 
        Sets the width of each character. 

        Height 
        Sets the height of each character. 

        Line Space 
        Sets the distance between the bottom of the characters in one
line to the top of the characters in the line below. 

        Photo Width 
        Sets the width of the line used to photoplot and display the
characters. If this is 0, the text displays at 1 pixel width on your
screen. 

        Char Space 
        Sets the amount of space between characters (kerning). 

        Reset 
        Resets any parameter you have changed in the dialog box back to
its previous setting. 

        
        Reset is only active in the current editing session. When you
click OK, your new changes are accepted and you need to edit the values
again to change them. 

        Add 
        Adds a new text block to the dialog box below the default 16
blocks. Adding a text block disables the Compact button. 

        Compact 
        Removes unused text blocks and consecutively renumbers remaining
blocks in both the dialog box and the database starting with 1. When you
initially click Compact, the existing Text Blk numbers remain to reflect
the text blocks to be retained, but the next time you open the dialog
box, these same text blocks are consecutively numbered, beginning with
1. If no unused text blocks exist, Compact is disabled. The Add and
Compact buttons are mutually exclusive. Adding a text block disables the
Compact button; compacting text disables the Add button. 


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From: Douglas Stanley [mailto:dstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 1:16 PM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Too many text sizes


All,
 
    I've got a problem with one of my boards. Upon reading in the
netlist and doing a quickplace, I get three parts that won't place.
After wading through the cryptic messages and trying several things, I
came to the conclusion that is it a text block issue. 
    The board I'm importing the netlist into has 64 different text
blocks defined. Allegro won't allow any more than 64. The new parts I'm
trying to add have different sizes embedded in them. Since Allegro won't
allow any more than 64, it won't read these symbols in.
    I know the board isn't using 64 different text sizes, so my question
is: How can I purge unused text definitions? This would allow for new
text sizes to be imported. Has anyone dealt with this issue? 
 
 
Thanks,
 
Doug
 



Douglas G. Stanley 
Broadcom Corporation - www.broadcom.com 
(949) 926-5889 - voice 
dstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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