| ID: | 2619 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Sat, 26 Jan 2019 05:28:47 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] [openems] bugreport - mesh |
| in-reply-to: | 2607 from Evan Foss <ev...@gmail.com> |
Hello Evan, On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Evan Foss wrote: >Hi Igor2, > >So last night/morning, we talked for a minute about z-mesh. The bottom >of the board by default always lands at z=0. The top is the >thicknesses of all the substrate layers added together. It is only the >substrate layers because right now the copper is just a change in >attribute on the surface of the substrate (2D) not a 3D object. > >So for the hairpinfilter example which is just 1 substrate layer of >1.5mm. It would be z=0mm for the bottom, and z=1.5mm for the top. > >That adjustment we have for z-mesh "num in substrate" is meant to >select how many lines fit inbetween those two lines. > >Technically my pcb2csx library can do both full 3D where all objects >have real thickness and the thing we do now but it eats a lot of >processing power for marginal benifit in most cases. In other words >it's not worth supporting at this point. > Thanks, saved this in our doc in svn. I've made the necessary modifications by r22823, please test! Regards, Igor2
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