Don't understand DRC output

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I’m using Osmond PCB on Mac, and I’ve tried submitting a few tests to see if I’ve got the hang of this pcb-desinging thing.

I get an email back saying it passes the DRC check, but the top.png file is just one large green square.

What is that supposed to show?

I’m not sure what file format options I’m suppsed to select when submitting the file, so I’ve tried a few, but the result stays the same.

Alex

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Was your top layer specified as a signal plane? If not, I suspect you simply picked the wrong file for that layer - one of the aux or stencil layer files, perhaps.

I’ve successfully had Osmond boards made by BatchPCB several times, although not recently. The only thing to watch out for (and this doesn’t apply only here) is to make sure that your design is entirely above and to the right of the origin: in other words, no points should have a zero or negative coordinate value. Osmond seems to do something funky with them, that looks right in some Gerber viewers, but has problems in others.

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I’m kind of new to this pcb designing stuff :slight_smile:

I think I set the right signal layer, as Osmond produces files called:

LAYER1.GBR

MASK1.GBR

SILK1.GBR

…

But maybe I should look for some other software to use, as Osmond is very MacOS 9, which causes some problems on OSX.

I usually don’t like X11 apps too much, but I think I’ll have a look at Eagle before I set myself up in Osmond completely.

Thanks for the help anyway :slight_smile:

Alex

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I’m not sure what you mean by “very MacOS 9” - you are using the Osmond Quartz version, right?

I’d be happy to take a look at your board and see if I can figure out what’s going wrong - send to jasonharper (at-sign) pobox (period) com.

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I’m using Osmond Quartz. What I mean with “very OS9”, is things like that it still clings very much to things like the creator-id. Which means that once you’ve edited a file, like a library, or so in TextEdit, it refuses to open it.

I’ve been playing with Eagle a bit, and I think I quite like that, the X11 interface notwithstanding.

But thanks for the offer to look at the files :slight_smile: I might take you up on that if I decide to continue with Osmond.

Cheers,

Alex