Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Drill Drawing

[Hans <hans2@seas.upenn.edu>]

Well, I guess I had a misunderstanding with the fab. site. I submitted 
the complete set of gerber files (incl. the ones called Drill Drawing and 
Drill Guide). However, they claim that the never got the 'drill files'. 
Now, I generated the NC Drill code (which pretty much is a bunch of x and 
y locations, right?) and I hope that will make them happy.What is the 
difference between the 'drill drawing' (i.e. gerber file with location of 
holes *.gd1) and the NC Drill files (generated by Protel as *.TXT *.DRR 
and on other one which I can't remember right now) in terms of 
fabricating the board? Are both files needed or is one preferred over the 
other one? This is the first time I submit a board so I'm quite a novice.

Hans


Tony Karavidas scribbled:
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}The NC drill is not the same as the drill drawing. You don't really need to
}look at the NC drill file. When you generate gerbers, you want to enable the
}Drill Drawing layer. I'm assuming you are using 99SE because you mentioned
}the CAM manager. In the gerber setup dialog box, there is a tab for Drill
}Drawing. See it? Check the TopLayer-BottomLayer box (if you use other
}layers, this dialog will be different) and re-generate you gerber data.
}
}Tony
}
}
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}> -----Original Message-----
}> From: TSListServer [mailto:owner-proteledausers@techservinc.com]On
}> Behalf Of Hans
}> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 2:53 PM
}> To: Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
}> Subject: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Drill Drawing
}>
}>
}> Hi Group,
}>
}>  The time has come to submit my design and one of the things that was
}> requested was a drill drawing. I'm having somewhat of a probelm doing
}> this. I generate the NC Drill output using the CAM manager. Up to here
}> all works fine. Once I want to look at the file, say by importing it
}> through CAMtastic, I can't get it in there. All the sudden, there are
}> entries for tool numbers and things alike. So, my question is ... once I
}> have a design on Protel (with through vias only) I generate the Gerber
}> files for the masks, but what do I have to do in order to get the
}> appropriate Drill code? Any help will be greatly appreciated,
}>
}> Hans
}>
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Hans J. Eberhart

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