Xpedition FabLink Drawing Editor manufacturing outline

Hi Jackie,

thanks for your reply.

No, there are no variants defined for this PCB.

Everything is enabled "loc: All on", plus all the User Draft layers. No luck with resetting the cells.

The manufacturing outline is a big rectangle bigger than anything else but I am still getting the error message. Ok I will raise a Service Request.

Do you know how to completely remove a cell from the design (with the origin included)?
If for example I wanted to remove the Fab_Notes that I find the PCB template, even after removing the cell instance from the design in the Cell Editor I cannot delete the cell from the local library (I get the error message "This cell cannot be deleted because it is referenced in the design").
Is there a special way to delete the instance of the cell so that I can be deleted in the cell editor?

Thanks

Flavio

Hi Jackie,

thanks for your reply. Yes, deleting graphics in place mode works! Thank you for the tip.

I guess I need to be very careful not to delete items while in Graphics mode (otherwise if I do, then the graphic instance disappears and then I am doomed with no way to completely delete the cell).

Also .--.. thanks for pointing out to the script; it works very well. Seems a bit of an overly complicated way to delete stuff but, given the above, I now understand why somebody went through the exercise of writing that script. Very useful! 

Now there is nothing outside the manufacturing outline, as you suspected I had an "hidden" item outside (text with 0 height far away from the center). But the board import still gives that error.

Anyway thank you for your help!

Flavio

Thanks Jackie

Well it is useful to know how to spot a "rogue" graphic item in the design, but the original problem is still there as I keep getting the import error.

But I guess that problem is more for a service request rather than the form.

But thanks for the assistance, I received good support!

cheers

Flavio

Hi there,

I think I have found the root cause of my issue:

basically even if I change the manufacturing outline to something huge (and I remove anything outside it with that handy user script), I still get the error above.

However, I have now realized that the issue is that the import is not using an updated version of the PCB. In fact, even if I move IC's around or even change the PCB board outline, when I import the PCB into the Drawing editor I still see the "original" version of the PCB.

That is strange because in the Drawing Editor manual it says:

Any modifications to one drawing file do not reflect in other drawing files; however, any

changes to a board/panel design dynamically update all drawing files that include that design.

This is clearly not working for me (that's why changing the Manufacturing Outline in the PCB had no effect).

Any clues? What am I doing wrong?

thanks

Flavio

For future reference, if anyone has the same "sync" problem between the PCB  and Fablink Editor:

the problem happens if you click "Cancel" in this warning after the import (and also if you tick the box..).

So it was my bad!

Hope this helps

Flavio