[PCB_FORUM] Re: thermal flash snafu
- From: Barbara Seeger <blm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:31:04 -0400 (EDT)
Gary,
I think the board was created with the old style flash symbols env
variable on. You need to run flash_convert on the brd file to have wysiwyg
negative plane thermal display that uses your library flash symbols.
LMK directly if there's more to it.
Regards,
Barbara
(Barbara Seeger - Cadence 978-262-6578 )
> From: "Gary MacIndoe" <gemcad@xxxxx>
> To: "icu-pcb-forum" <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] thermal flash snafu
>
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Ok, I've been creating Negative shapes for many years, and have been banging
> my
> head over this one for hours, several times. It looks like the thermal relief
> shapes are not being displayed correctly, or not found.
>
> I am working on a design that was initially created by someone else, and my
> DIMM
> symbol is not showing the thermal connections as it should (first screen
> capture, BAD).
> When I do a Tools -> Padstack -> Modify Design Padstack and edit the padstack
> in
> the design, I can see that it is finding the thermal flash symbol.
>
> My symbol is fine, as you can see as it is used in a similar design that I
> created (second screen capture, GOOD).
>
> I have looked everywhere I can think of to see if something is set wrong with
> no
> luck. I have performed Update Symbols with everything checked with no luck.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks for any help, it's driving me nuts (well, more nuts)!
>
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