Hit "o" done it has no effect on the issue. Lots of surface mount parts but none off of the 90 degree angles.
I was hoping there would be an easy answer and fearing there isn't. Looks like the conditions for a stale rats nest are that for a given rats nest line the function FindRouteBoxOnLayerGroup returns a null value for at least one end point. Lets step back. I have created a schematic using gschem. generated a net list constructed all the needed footprints placed them into pcb and loaded the netlist I have no missing components I hand routed the power and ground planes rerun rats nest optimization put copper rectangles around the board on three signal layers to restrict the autorouter This will be a six layer board with a likely stackup of signal / ground / signal/ power1/ power2 / signal the pcb layers enabled are component solder gnd power1 signal1 power2 silk rat lines pins/pads vias far side rerun rats net opt.... no shorts no complaints 582 rat lines remaining then doesn't matter if i select one rat line or all I get the stale rats nest message Is there something I am supposed to be doing in setting up the layers? SO far all I have done from the standard pcb setup is to rename one of the layers to power2 Thanks, Steve Meier On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:22 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > I know of two reasons why this happens: > > 1. Hit "o" to optimize the rats nest. > > 2. You have SMD parts rotated to non-90 angles. > > The autorouter is (or at least should be) 100% independent of the HID. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
