On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:49:57PM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: > No, I am not suggesting #2. You don't want to reroute the design > after you add the jumpers. Once you have a routed design, add the > jumper pads to the layout so that wires can be added to the bottom > of the board to complete the unrouted connections. Then use back > annotation to update the schematic and you are done! DO NOT try to > auto-route the layout again from the schematic. As you say, this > does not work well. > > You have to accept the fact that if the auto-router does not > complete the routing, you have to manually route the remainder of > the board. Once you do manual touch-up of any kind, that is no > longer a part of the automatic process and will need to be redone if > you want to change the design later. In your case, if you want to > auto-route the board again, you need to remove the jumpers from the > schematic, make the changes to the schematic, rerun the auto-route, > do your touch-up again, back-annotate the schematic and be happy. > :^) >
If you do a diff on the schematic between these steps, it will be easy to script the undo-change-redo sequence if you expect to make a lot of changes. -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
