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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:07:18 -0500
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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On 01/13/2014 05:45 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote:
>>> I think you are one of the persons who have really used PCB program in
>>> the last 4 years (I did not, maybe DJ did) -- have you ever noticed the
>>> polygon bug reported some days ago by Gabriel Paubert? There seems to be
>>> no reply from other people, so my impression that no one is using PCB
>>> currently is supported unfortunately. I myself have no idea about
>>> polygon handling and gerber generation, it was my assumption that that
>>> was working correctly. Yesterday I found a problem report related to
>>> polygon dicer from 2008
>>> http://t14292.cad-geda-development.cadtalk.us/yet-another-dicer-bug-t14292.html
>>
>>   I've gotta jump in on this topic.  I've produced about thirty
>> commercial boards in the past 2.5 years with PCB, nearly all of which
>> have at least a few QFPs on them.  I have not, at least to my knowledge,
>> run into this bug.
> 
> Good to hear that a few people are still using PCB, some even for
> commercial boards.

  "Still"? ;)  I haven't found anything better.  I've been using PCB for
well over a decade now, sporadically at first, but now I'm doing lots of
boards with it.  It's great stuff.

> Personally I do not really care about if someone ever
> may use my router, but as the project is on my homepage, someone may ask
> me: Why do you work on a router for a program that absolutely no one is
> using any more. Now I can point that people to this thread ;-)

  Yes. :-)

> Have you been able to test the supplied PCB board file of Gabriel
> Paubert? Maybe he has corrupted the file in some way? I was able to load
> that file and indeed saw that bug on screen, I still have not done a
> carefully file format review. I think I should do it. He said that he
> saw the bug also in the gerbers, so it may be a serious problem. My
> first idea was that it may be related to the nm conversion or the GL
> drawing introduced by Peter C.

  Yes, I tried it a moment ago.  I did see the manifestation of the bug.
 Now that I look at it, yes, I HAVE actually seen that pop up before.  I
don't recall the exact circumstances, but I recall having deleted the
affected component, and after re-adding it, the problem went away.  I
think that has only happened maybe two or three times, so not very often
at all.

                 -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA