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2005-07-21: When I choose
Design | Synchronize sheet entries and ports
on a multi-channel design, it claims that
"REPEAT(CHc)" does not exactly match "CHc".
Work-around: Just ignore it. It seems to generate the right stuff for the PCB.
-- DavidCary?



Bugs:
Normally, when I copy something from one ".pcbdoc" to another, I do

• select something
• ctrl+c
• click reference location
• ctrl+v
• click reference location.

This works fine when I'm doing components and tracks.
But when I copy *rooms*, the first reference click is ignored --
placing the room always referenced from the lower-left corner of the room.
I expected rooms to act like everything else — placement referenced
from the first reference click after the ctrl+c.
(When copying multiple selected rooms at once,
I can't figure out what protel is using as the reference point.
Not what I expected, anyway).
-- DavidCary?

Bugs:
autorouter gives me a
"Error: Pad U5_P15-4? Appears to be unroutable. Violation against Rule - Clearance Clearance Constraint (Gap=8mil) ... Detected."
on a VCC connection I've already pre-routed and locked into place.
(The trace *is* at some skew angle and the "minimum" width.
it would be unroutable if it were limited
to the "normal" 8 directions, and/or used the "preferred"
fat VCC width.).
I wish it would recognize that pad has *already* been routed...
-- DavidCary?




What's with the different color from-to ratsnest lines ?
And how come
all of them are visible in normal layer mode,
but when I toggle to single-layer mode with ctrl+s,
only some of them are visible ?
(some are visible on every layer;
others are only visible in single-layer mode on a particular layer).
-- DavidCary?



I sort of expected a "room" to give me 3 options: restrict its components to the top layer only, the bottom layer only, or the top *and* the bottom layer.
But currently it only gives me the first 2 choices.
-- DavidCary?