P-cad questions

[TheM]

Not exactly the right group, but I'm sure someone will know.

Say you've created a small PCB board in P-CAD using copper pour
for large ground and would like to multiply the board for
stencil and pcb manufacturing.

The problem is that copy-paste does not work as you loose the net
information and copper pour is lost. You basically have to re-assign
ground net for the copper pour for every small pcb, which can be
time consuming.

Is there a way to lock each individual board so the copper pour stays put?

I've tried just about everything with no success.

M

 

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Not exactly the right group, but I'm sure someone will know.

Say you've created a small PCB board in P-CAD using copper pour
for large ground and would like to multiply the board for
stencil and pcb manufacturing.

The problem is that copy-paste does not work as you loose the net
information and copper pour is lost. You basically have to re-assign
ground net for the copper pour for every small pcb, which can be
time consuming.

Is there a way to lock each individual board so the copper pour stays put?

I've tried just about everything with no success.

M

Why do you want to do this? Just give step and repeat instructions to
the PCB fab.
If you really want to control how the biscuits look, just draw board
outlines to show where you want them to be.
If you still want to generate the artwork for them (they hate that
because any DFM errors on the original get copied x times), import the
gerbers back into the database, this should import shapes and lines
with no net information. At least I can do that in Allegro, but then
you get all kinds of net-to-net DRCs. And you're still SOL for the
drills.

In many ways, the PCB design world runs with shit-poor software firmly
stuck in the 1970s. I blame all the EDA companies.

 

[JeffM]

Not exactly the right group, but I'm sure someone will know.

Once you eliminate the obvious, it's not hard to find which:
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=PCAD+-ingroup:design+-ingroup:alt

 

[TheM]

Why do you want to do this? Just give step and repeat instructions to
the PCB fab.
If you really want to control how the biscuits look, just draw board
outlines to show where you want them to be.
If you still want to generate the artwork for them (they hate that
because any DFM errors on the original get copied x times), import the
gerbers back into the database, this should import shapes and lines
with no net information. At least I can do that in Allegro, but then
you get all kinds of net-to-net DRCs. And you're still SOL for the
drills.

In many ways, the PCB design world runs with shit-poor software firmly
stuck in the 1970s. I blame all the EDA companies.

Just like the banks, some are supposedly using a finely tuned mix of
all kinds of platforms, some very old.

Thanks for the info.

M