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Non-visable remnant?

jerry323

Sometime during a PCB design using the pro version of Eagle 6.5, something happened to cause the extents of the design to increase drastically.  The board out line is approximately 0.6 X 2.5 inches, but when I do a zoom to fit, the visable page zooms out to include a significant area (39" X 80").  I thought there might be a remnant on a layer placed way outside the board outline, but attempts to do a block delete finds nothing.

 

Generating Gerber files also include this extended area!

 

Any one know  how to delete all outside the board outline, or anything that would cause this issue?

 

Thanks for the group's help

  • 0 in reply to rachaelp

    Another good suggestion!  I may just do that!  Thanks to Morten as well!

     

    Regards

  • 0 in reply to jerry323

    Jerry,

     

    One could also peruse the board file with a text editor or sed,

    searching for any x or y coordinate greater than a certain value.

     

    HTH,

        - Chuck

     

     

    On 08/18/2016 11:53 AM, Jerry Robinson wrote:

    Rachael:

     

    Good work!

     

    The cut, zoom extents, find remnant plan didn't work, because it wanted me to do that with the coupled schematic (couldn't cut).  However, the group copy and paste to a new board worked fine and I rename the new PCB with the original name.  Everything's still coupled correctly and I got rid of the "ghost" remnant.  I would love to know what and where it was!

     

    Thanks again to the group!

     

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  • 0 in reply to jerry323

    Jerry,

     

    One could also peruse the board file with a text editor or sed,

    searching for any x or y coordinate greater than a certain value.

     

    HTH,

        - Chuck

     

     

    On 08/18/2016 11:53 AM, Jerry Robinson wrote:

    Rachael:

     

    Good work!

     

    The cut, zoom extents, find remnant plan didn't work, because it wanted me to do that with the coupled schematic (couldn't cut).  However, the group copy and paste to a new board worked fine and I rename the new PCB with the original name.  Everything's still coupled correctly and I got rid of the "ghost" remnant.  I would love to know what and where it was!

     

    Thanks again to the group!

     

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    To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

    https://www.element14.com/community/message/203952

     

     

  • 0 in reply to jerry323

    Jerry,

     

    One could also peruse the board file with a text editor or sed,

    searching for any x or y coordinate greater than a certain value.

     

    HTH,

        - Chuck

     

     

    On 08/18/2016 11:53 AM, Jerry Robinson wrote:

    Rachael:

     

    Good work!

     

    The cut, zoom extents, find remnant plan didn't work, because it wanted me to do that with the coupled schematic (couldn't cut).  However, the group copy and paste to a new board worked fine and I rename the new PCB with the original name.  Everything's still coupled correctly and I got rid of the "ghost" remnant.  I would love to know what and where it was!

     

    Thanks again to the group!

     

    --

    To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

    https://www.element14.com/community/message/203952

     

     

  • 0 in reply to jerry323

    Jerry Robinson wrote:

    The cut, zoom extents, find remnant plan didn't work, because it

    wanted me to do that with the coupled schematic (couldn't cut). 

    However, the group copy and paste to a new board worked fine and I

    rename the new PCB with the original name.  Everything's still coupled

    correctly and I got rid of the "ghost" remnant.

    I would love to know what and where it was!

     

    just compare the original and the new board file with a diff tool

    (winmerge for instance)

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    Lorenz

     

  • 0 in reply to jerry323

    Jerry Robinson wrote:

    The cut, zoom extents, find remnant plan didn't work, because it

    wanted me to do that with the coupled schematic (couldn't cut). 

    However, the group copy and paste to a new board worked fine and I

    rename the new PCB with the original name.  Everything's still coupled

    correctly and I got rid of the "ghost" remnant.

    I would love to know what and where it was!

     

    just compare the original and the new board file with a diff tool

    (winmerge for instance)

    --

     

    Lorenz