Troubles with find similar objects

[Patrice]

Hello
I have some troubles with DXP 2004 SP4 software.
I can't use the find similar objet command for searching pads, holes ...
who have a decimal point in there size.
For example, i can find all holes with 1mm size, but then i search the
holes who have 0.7mm, i have a message "error occured while running script".
Is there a patch for this ??

 

[Brad Velander]

Patrice,
Are you by chance using the European "," as the decimal
delimiter? Since you are mentioning metric sizing and your
address seems to be in France, I thought it might be a
possibility. There is definitely a number of problems in DXP
caused by the use of a "," as a decimal point. In short, don't do
that, set your machine O/S to use the "." convention for
decimals. They are supposedly working on a fix for that, maybe in
SP5.

Other than that, why ask your questions here, the Altium DXP
forum will probably get you more help and a lot faster? Even the
Altium tech support and some of the actual developers are online
there, besides a large number of users. And if there is no answer
or work-around, then you have also informed the developers
without any additional effort.

Actually, should I have even asked such a stupid question?
Your software is probably pirated, that is why you don't ask
there.

Another possibility, switch to imperial, see if that may
work. That may not work any better if you designed your pads in
metric, then they are just as likely to have decimals in their
imperial sizing after conversion.

--
Sincerely,
Brad Velander

"Patrice" <patrice.ulrich@eost.u-strasbg.fr> wrote in message
news:df3l0p$gkq$1@news.u-strasbg.fr...

Hello
I have some troubles with DXP 2004 SP4 software.
I can't use the find similar objet command for searching pads,
holes ...
who have a decimal point in there size.
For example, i can find all holes with 1mm size, but then i
search the
holes who have 0.7mm, i have a message "error occured while
running script".
Is there a patch for this ??

 

[Patrice]

Brad Velander wrote:

Patrice,
Are you by chance using the European "," as the decimal
delimiter? Since you are mentioning metric sizing and your
address seems to be in France, I thought it might be a
possibility. There is definitely a number of problems in DXP
caused by the use of a "," as a decimal point. In short, don't do
that, set your machine O/S to use the "." convention for
decimals. They are supposedly working on a fix for that, maybe in
SP5.

Yes, you are right. i received a response from altium tech support

yesterday :

Sir
It could possibly be the settings in your windows XP regional settings:

Change the numbers decimal separator from (,) to (.)

Hope it helps

Kind regards


Florentin Petrila
EDA Tools Specialist
___________________________________________________________
Support & Application Europe

Altium - Making Electronics Design Easier
Protel AG (A subsidiary of Altium Limited)
Unterdorfstrasse1
4334 Sisseln
Switzerland
Phone: +41 628664111
Fax: +41 628664110

www.altium.com

Other than that, why ask your questions here, the Altium DXP
forum will probably get you more help and a lot faster? Even the
Altium tech support and some of the actual developers are online
there, besides a large number of users. And if there is no answer
or work-around, then you have also informed the developers
without any additional effort.

i can't connect to the forum, did you tring connect recently?

http://forums.altium.com

Actually, should I have even asked such a stupid question?
Your software is probably pirated, that is why you don't ask
there.

No, no pirated version, we have a valid licence for the school !

and so y could asked the tech forum who is not bad at all.

Another possibility, switch to imperial, see if that may
work. That may not work any better if you designed your pads in
metric, then they are just as likely to have decimals in their
imperial sizing after conversion.

 

[Brad Velander]

Well glad you got your answer Patrice,
The pirated software thing was just a guess, I couldn't
figure out why you would post here if you could post to the AD
forum.
I don't connect to the forum often (except when replying to
posts on the forum) but receive all the postings via email.
Haven't connected within the last week because I have been too
busy to even read the incoming emails.

--
Sincerely,
Brad Velander

"Patrice" <patrice.ulrich@eost.u-strasbg.fr> wrote in message
news:df69ul$ht3$1@news.u-strasbg.fr...

Brad Velander wrote:
Patrice,
Are you by chance using the European "," as the decimal
delimiter? Since you are mentioning metric sizing and your
address seems to be in France, I thought it might be a
possibility. There is definitely a number of problems in DXP
caused by the use of a "," as a decimal point. In short,
don't do
that, set your machine O/S to use the "." convention for
decimals. They are supposedly working on a fix for that,
maybe in
SP5.

Yes, you are right. i received a response from altium tech
support
yesterday :