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BUG - Allegro PCB Editor - Board 3D STEP model

Davgarc

Good morning, I have recently found an apparent bug in Allegro PCB Designer 17.2 with HF 059.

As per new 17.2, board outline has to be designed on layer Design_Outline in Board_Geometry. For annotation/guide I use layer Outline to first import DXF and then compose a shape on Design_Outline from Outline layer.

This is working ok in terms of showing 3D model inside Allegro by clicking 3D button. But when I export STEP Model from File menu, not only Design_Outline is exported but also Outline layer, producing an wrong STEP file.

Hope this get's fixed in the new HF 060.

Kind regards

  • Have you reported this to Cadence, or through your Channel Partner? This forum is not a place to post issues you have found with the tools with the hope of anyone fixing them.

  • But, I have designs that spent years in 16.6.  I don't know if you want to break something customers have been relying on.

    (Now, Allegro SIP complains when you use the outline layer every time you make artwork.)

  • I reported this in October 2018 CASE 46317084. Remove the outline from the original outline layer so that is only exists on the new design_outline subclass. That should fix it. Be aware, there are other exports that are also still broken, they do not use the design_outline subclass either.

  • in reply to oldmouldy

    I did search for a good place to post the bug, but after searching I couldn't find the proper place to post it. Could you please give me the link/details to do this? Also, I've noticed that Adrian Hobbs, down here, reported this in October 2018, but maybe this would lead to a final fixing.

  • in reply to Adrian Hobbs

    Thanks Adrian, I already did that as I supposed that was causing the problem. The thing is that if they claim that you have to use Desing_Outline, they should care about any potential issues by letting the user to work on Outline layer too.

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