An Entire Small Board is Reported as a Difference

When you are running CAM Compare on a small board, you might need to adjust the box size to avoid having the whole board reported as a difference.

Symptoms

CAM Compare reports a whole small board as being different rather than isolating the specific points that are different.

Causes

CAM Compare combines adjacent differences to minimize the number of issues that the user must examine when inspecting the report. For a board that is small relative to the default box size, all differences on the whole board might be grouped.

Solution

Change the configuration parameter ia_box_size to 100 (mil) for small boards, so that the individual differences are reported. On large board this setting would cause CAM Compare to report many more individual differences - many of them from the same source.

See “Comparison Process Configuration”.