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PROTEL Autotrax - known issues, and unobvious solutionsEver spoken to someone about a software package they use everyday, and been surprised to find that they never, ever, have anyproblems with it? Never lose a file, never get an unintended result?Sometimes it is just a matter of knowing what NOT to do!You must size strings in multiples of 12 thou,if you don't they will display as if they WERE multiples of 12 thou,until you come to manufacture, where they may change.The hole sizes in all the protel PCB libraries are not reallycorrect. They are often odd values like '23 thou'. I believethat what was intended was that a designer could layout theirboard, and AT THE END decide that they wanted, for instance, touse no IC sockets, so 28 thou was the best size, or IC sockets,so 32 thou was the best size - and then they could do a globalhole size edit of just hole sizes matching '23 thou' to thesenew, real, sizes. Actually, a far better technique is to makethem all 32 thou and be done with it, as often this last stepget reliably missed in the rush to get prototypes made!Check all your hole sizes.You should not select autoroute 'pre-route' while you have SMTpads on the board - it will sometimes add little PTH via pads besidethe SMT ('stringers') even if they don't need them, and even ifthey short to neighbouring pads. Well, actually, once you know wherethese 'stringers' will be dropped, and what to look for, you will findpre-route is still very useful. Autotrax does not seem to place them onall Surface mount pads, and stops placing them once those particular surfacemount pads have been connected using tracks and the route is removed fromthe netlist.In Autotrax, SMT pads will only be produced without a hole if thehole size is set to 0.
Be careful that you specify a hole size of 0 for SMT padsOctagonal pads are rotated by 22.5 degrees in gerber plots.Most australian manufacturers then rotate them back again for you.The author elects not to use octagonal pads for this reason, unless generating the gerbers as well.This issue may be duplicated in other versions of Protel software.Protel Autotrax was originally a DOS package. It uses 8.3 filenames,so you must should limit the file name to (7 or) 8 characters with '.PCB'at the end.
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If you use long filenames, for instance 'controller.pcb' thenyour operating system will make the filename accessible as 'contro1.pcb' or,if similar long file names already exist, perhaps 'contro2.pcb' etc.This will cause you difficulties in the longer term, limit yourself toseven characters, for instance 'control.pcb' and then when you need anew version you can call it 'control2.pcb'While Protel Autotrax was originally a DOS package, it is not correct tosay it is command line driven. If you set up Autotrax the normal way inDOSBox you will never see a command line - all operations happen in a GUI.DOSBox allows Autotrax PCB (Traxedit) to runfull screen - but only on the primary monitor (#1). The authors of DOSBoxare just a little touchy on some subjects, and say this is a limitation of SDL, the baselibrary. This is partly true, the older version of SDL that they use is limited in thisrespect. If you want to use Autotrax in 1280 x 1024 and set up your 1280 x 1024 monitoras monitor 1, using the package full screen will be easy.
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The DOSBox authors also insistthat their package 'is intended primarily for games' which seems rather ab arbitarylimitation to impose upon their audience.But hey, they source is open and no one gets charged for the app!Sometimes when rotating components withrectangular SMT pads on PCBs -or perhaps when you rotate block selected areas, the author is not completely sure -you will get the X and Y values for the pads swopped.That is, everything will rotate by 90 degrees, but if the longestdimension of the pad was horizontal it will still be horizontal.This is usually immediately obvious. It is not random - ithappens when you do something unusual first (The author has not been able topin down what this is - as it very rarely happens to him! Perhaps it happens when thepads are not part of a component, but are 'exploded' or primitives - email me if youknow what causes this!)The 'netlist:length' command in PCB does not seem to yield a usefulmeasurementThe PCB design rule check is pretty reliable - but reading thereport takes some experience - it tells you that there is a fault, but oftentwice, and often in a way you are not expecting.
