[PCB_FORUM] Re: how do YOU handle component spacing rules?
- From: "Musetti, Carl" <cmusetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:48:41 -0400
My major concern is having to buy another CAD/CAM package that cost thousands
of dollars to do a DRC check that should be done in the tool I already paid
thousands of dollars for! Who cares if the raw card can be manufactured
perfectly and the parts can't be put on by the assembler with out manual
rework, that doesn't do me any good at all. I am all for online DRC checking I
would rather get right the 1st time that have to go back and fix it after the
fact, which has always been painful. We run DBDOCTOR at night on our boards as
a batch job that way nobody but the computer takes that big time hit. I agree
completely with your multithreading comment, they need to get on the ball there.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin McCowan [mailto:kmccowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 12:45 PM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: how do YOU handle component spacing rules?
Just because it is there doesn't mean you need to use it.
Stick with what you have now as long as it works.
It certainly would help a lot of people out I figure.
As I said earlier, I would welcome it.
Kevin
george.h.patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On-line placement checks would be nice, but I have a concern about adding
> another layer of on-line DRC checking.
>
> As it is, it takes 45 minutes to an hour to do a dbdoctor run on some of our
> boards, and this is on dual Xeon PCs with 1 GB of RAM. Creating and
> updating modules takes similar times. Another layer of DRC checking is
> going to slow the process down even more.
>
> It would help if Cadence would start using some multi-threading in Allegro
> so it would operate more efficiently in conjunction with adding additional
> DRC checks that will slow things down even more. Even those with single
> processors would benefit, at least those with hyper-threading processors.
>
> The other option, of course, is getting some smaller boards to work on :)
>
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