[PCB_FORUM] Re: Too many text sizes

Another thing that will keep parts from placing is if there is text or
dimension lines that will extend
past the edge of the WORLD view,  if your board has borders that are
close to that world view.
 
One way to avoid this is to not put too much text and or dimension lines
in the physical symbols or
to change the size of the world so there is margin for that sort of
stuff to hang over the edge of the board.
Shirley

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From: Douglas Stanley [mailto:dstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:35 AM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Too many text sizes


Sorry, I should have mentioned I was using 14.2. 
 
So far, I've clipped out a subdrawing of everything and read it into a
blank board. I lost the unused text sizes. I dumped a techfile and
imported that as well. It all looks like it worked, but what a pain...
 
 
Doug
 

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Gerry Meier [mailto:gerry.meier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
        Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:25 AM
        To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [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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