IDF export broken?

 

And this is the exact problem. How can you expect the contour of an

object to be correct while using, for example, the keepout layer to

guess the dimension of a package???

This has been brought up before, the ULP will be improved to be able to

ignore the keepout layers in the XY calculation.

The old, patched ULP is included in the attached file.

 

Thanks for this, I'll make sure it gets added to the main release of

EAGLE. Thank you again for bringing this up.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Dear Cadsoft team,

Because there's almost one week passed since my last posting, do you have any thoughts about this?

Kind Regards,

Joop

On 7/15/2015 8:18 AM, Joop14 wrote:

Dear Cadsoft team,

 

Because there's almost one week passed since my last posting, do you

have any thoughts about this?

Hi Joop,

I did respond, I thanked you for the correction, stating that it will be

included in the next release of EAGLE for everyone's benefit and

informed you that the eagleidfexporter.ulp was going to be adjusted to

not include the keep out layers in the calculation.

I apologize if I missed a question in the last exchange.

Let me know if you don't see it or if it didn't make it to you.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

I just came  now to element14 and my original response isnt here. great

Hello Jorge,

Thank you for coming back.

Yes, I believe there is an issue with this board that sometimes a new post does not show up or only after a couple of days...

I believe that, whatever existing layer you choose to calculate the dimension of a package, it's never going to work. At least not accurately.

Imho the only good solution is to use the old (patched) ulp that makes use of a new additional layer that contains a 2d geometry

of the package and where the linewidth of that layer is used to calculate the height. (height is linewidth x 1000)

Anyway, thank you for looking into it.

Kind Regards,

Joop

Dear Cadsoft team,

I found another bug in your IDF export.

Parts placed on the bottom were not mirrored correctly.

Please find attached the corrected ulp v2.1.

One other thing, why is Cadsoft still shipping with the broken IDF export v1.9?

(for example see V7.4.2 beta)

Kind Regards,

Joop

There's a problem with this board.

Sometimes a new reply does not bump up the thread.

Hi Joop,

I hope you're doing well. Long story, here's where we are at. The devs don't want the layers changed so I altered the ULP to check for the correct layers 50,57,58(correct being defined by the devs) and if they are not found then the ULP offers to create them. I've taken your latest changes and incorporated them along with my changes to make V2.2 of the ULP. If you can send me the file that exercises the mirror bug, I would appreciate it to make sure the merged ULP is working. Once that's done then I can send it to the devs so that it can be included in the next release of EAGLE.

You can e-mail me support@cadsoftusa.com.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia