GC-Prevue Jump to Component

[Hawker]

On 4/30/2007 8:22 PM, The digits of Joerg's hands composed the following:

Hawker wrote:

On 4/29/2007 9:07 PM, The digits of Joerg's hands composed the following:

David Novak wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to get reference designator information into
GC-Prevue? Whenever I use Jump to Component, I get the message
"Can't find a component called xx", where xx is the reference
designator I am trying to locate.

It appears that GC-Prevue does not have the reference designator
information that it needs.


Just went to the Graphicode web site because a client of mine will
soon need a Gerber viewer. I also checked out the higher (not free)
versions. Lo and behold GC PreView Plus does have silkscreen OCR.
Pretty cool. But it seems a bit pricey at $495.


Interesting.
I wish CAM350 had that. Oh well.
That is the first REAL usable feature that I have heard from that
product that I could not do in CAM350


Question: Does CAM350 have semi-transparent layer representation so you
can see through to at least one layer down? None of the viewers I tried
had that. Beats me why because it is a rather mundane but critical
feature. Without it one has to constantly hide/unhide layers. I've got a
huge layout coming and I am always thankful when I made it through one
without carpal tunnel problems.

Yes Hitting "t" toggles transparency mode.
Download it and try. They give you a full 30 license to try it for free.

Hawker

 

[Joerg]

Hawker wrote:

On 4/30/2007 8:22 PM, The digits of Joerg's hands composed the following:

Hawker wrote:

On 4/29/2007 9:07 PM, The digits of Joerg's hands composed the
following:

David Novak wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to get reference designator information into
GC-Prevue? Whenever I use Jump to Component, I get the message
"Can't find a component called xx", where xx is the reference
designator I am trying to locate.

It appears that GC-Prevue does not have the reference designator
information that it needs.


Just went to the Graphicode web site because a client of mine will
soon need a Gerber viewer. I also checked out the higher (not free)
versions. Lo and behold GC PreView Plus does have silkscreen OCR.
Pretty cool. But it seems a bit pricey at $495.


Interesting.
I wish CAM350 had that. Oh well.
That is the first REAL usable feature that I have heard from that
product that I could not do in CAM350


Question: Does CAM350 have semi-transparent layer representation so
you can see through to at least one layer down? None of the viewers I
tried had that. Beats me why because it is a rather mundane but
critical feature. Without it one has to constantly hide/unhide layers.
I've got a huge layout coming and I am always thankful when I made it
through one without carpal tunnel problems.


Yes Hitting "t" toggles transparency mode.
Download it and try. They give you a full 30 license to try it for free.

Thanks. Well, I need something that works for more than 30 days. Instead
of a price they only posted a phone number, which typically leads to the
usual high-$$ haggle. Their CAMvu can't read Gerbers but I found a link
where they mentioned that there is a stripped down CAM350 version sans
editing capabilities. That's all I need. This is the link if anyone else
is interested:

http://www.downstreamtech.com/CAM350/CAMvu.html

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com