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Expediton Pad Stack is MM and is Made in MIL

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Topic: Expediton Pad Stack is MM and is Made in MIL
Posted By: josanche
Subject: Expediton Pad Stack is MM and is Made in MIL
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2015 at 8:47am
Hi,
 
When I input dimensions into the Library Expert Pro they are in millimeters.
 
The naming conventions of the part and pad stacks are all in millimeters.
 
However, when I open the pad stack or individual pads, they are actually created in TH (or MILS).
 
This is incorrect, they should be created in MM. 
 
FYI, this is all in Mentor Graphics Expedition Cell Editor / Pad Stack Editor
 


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Posted By: chrisa_pcb
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2015 at 10:35am
The part is created with mm values.
You must manually set the th to mm to see them.
This is a shortcoming of the DLL's used to interface to Expedition.
For some reason they don't allow me to change the visibility of the units.
They always show as the mil values of the millimeter dimensions until you manually set them to mm.
I simply don't have control over that units drop down at the current time due to the DLL's.


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