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shadders
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 14 Jun 2011 : 21:57:06
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Hi,
I have a 4 layer design, with ground plane and power plane on the layer 2 and layer 3 of the board.
Each inner plane has in general 3 copper pour shapes, as does the top layer and bottom layer.
The Gerber plotting hangs on both inner layers, but not the top layer or bottom layer. The top and bottom layer copper pours are exactly the same inner layers copper pours.
If i remove the copper pour of one of the three copper pour shapes - the Gerber plotting completes.
Error messages if i leave the plot running on middle layers is an empty error message window.
I have changed the pour characteristics for thermal relief and removed thermal relief - same result - gerber plot still fails.
Any ideas what the problem is ?.
Can i change components or copper pour thickness to get the gerber plots to run ?.
Memory continues to increment to a plateau, then error message.
UPDATE _ Installed Easy-PC on a Windows 7 64bit system - plotting works no problem. This was version 14.0. So is there an issue with v14.05 on Vista 64bit ?
UPDATE _ Plotting for 2nd layer works, plotting for 3rd layer fails. Again, removing a specific copper pour area allows the plot to be generated.
Thanks and regards,
Richard.
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Edited by - shadders on 14 Jun 2011 22:41:25 |
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DavidM
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 Jun 2011 : 10:50:28
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No known issues with Vista64. If you still have problems when using the latest 14.0.5 update, it sounds more likely to be a specific geometry issue that we need to look at fixing for you.
David |
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shadders
United Kingdom
224 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jun 2011 : 19:10:08
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Hi David,
Thanks - i sent the pcb file to the support e-mail address yesterday in anticipation that this would be the case. Since it is occuring on Windows 7 on v1.0 - seems to be the geometry issue.
Thanks and regards,
Richard. |
Edited by - shadders on 16 Jun 2011 19:12:46 |
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Gerber Not Plotting for Inner Layers