by atestani » Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:01 pm
I should close this out by saying I have resolved this issue by deleting SmartDFM.cfg in the My Documents\Pentalogix\SmartDFM folder. I have no idea what was wrong in the file but I had reinstalled several times and evidently something got messed up.
I also resolved an "unhandled error" with Pentalogix help where I was not doing non-plated holes correctly and an internal array was being accessed with no contents (an out of bounds error). The required action on my part was to change the tool code type in ViewMateDLX to "non-plated" on the general drill layer that was imported. Then as SmartDFM runs it will show an error that these holes are not on the NPTH layer SmartDFM creates. A couple of clicks in SmartDFM moves them and all is well. I recommended to Pentalogix that they catch this error and handle it as opposed to letting the raw error surface to the user.