[PEDA] Pre-routing In 99SE

[Harry Selfridge]

Hi Bob,

I doubt that your component footprint is what is causing the 
problem.  As I recall, the most common reason for the "failed to 
initialize" complaint from the 99SE router was a missing or 
incomplete bounding outline on the keepout layer.

There are some suggestions/hints in the knowledge base article: 
http://www.altium.com/forms/kb/kb_item.asp?ID=1694

Regards - Harry





At 11:40 AM 11/10/2006, you wrote:
>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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