DFT Audit - decal name length > 16

[Chris Halleran]

Two years ago, the DFT Audit tool would sometimes give us Out Of Memory Error if the design had a decal with a name greater than 16 characters in length. In some cases, the only way to run DFT Audit was to rename the decal to a shorter name.

Because of this, our site's decal library has 16 character max length for decals.

I just called Innoveda tech support, and they didn't have anything saying "yes that bug was fixed on release so and so"... they tried a small test, and said it worked. But at the same time, tech support said the DFT Audit tool had not been changed in a long time. Since this bug was not 100% repeatable, I'm wondering if there's anyone that uses DFT Audit with long decal names.... and has still seen it happen, or can say "no that problem used to happen, but doesn't anymore". I think maybe Tom H. used to have this problem too?

Thanks, Chris H.

[Tom]

Chris,

We used to have this problem with PowerPCB V3.5, but it went away with PowerPCB V4.0. We haven't had any problems with long decal names in a while now. We just ran into this issue last week when Motorola wanted to review one of our PCB layouts and asked for a PowerPCB V2.0 ASCII file. CRASH! No can do.

[Chris Halleran]

Thanks Tom... after you responded, I also got a call from Innoveda Tech Support, confirming that this problem was indeed fixed under version 4.00