[PEDA] Pre-routing In 99SE

[Robert Ritchey]

Hi Again,
As you can tell I am just getting into 99SE.  Believe it or not PCB 2.8 had
done all I needed for quite a while.  I now have a board with some components
at 45 degrees and 2.8 falls apart there.  Anyway, I am probably doing this
wrong but it has worked for all this time in 2.8.  I defined a 
heat-sink with some
fills and no pads.  When I would pre-route in 2.8 it would change 
these fills to
what ever might be connected to them, like the tab on a D2PAK.  I 
tried to turn
off all the auto-routing in 99SE to get a pre-route but it does not 
work.  It goes
through the locked traces and then says it cannot initialize which really does
not tell me anything.  I am not even sure if 99SE will act the same way as 2.8
did.  I may have to re-do the way I define my heat-sink.  This is a 
surface mount
heat-sink that has a contact area like a "U" (Aavid 7109D).  The only 
way I can
figure to do this is will 3 fills.  As you can tell I am way behind 
the curve here and
would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,

-Bob
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Robert Ritchey
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