On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:00:16 +0100 Dietmar Schmunkamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 10.11.2010 19:06, schrieb Colin D Bennett: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:09:50 -0500 > > DJ Delorie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >>> a) There is no such facility. > >> > >> This one. We've been talking about a redesign to pcb's internals > >> that would allow support for this, but at the moment, we don't > >> have it. > > > > Could you emulate it in the current version of pcb by drawing a > > rectangle/polygon on the area you wish to become the keep-out > > region? Would the autorouter then avoid it? > > > The trick with the rectangle works, I used it on my board to separate > the control section (TTL) of a solid state relais from the 220 V > section. The autorouter kept the digital signals on one side and the > 220 V signals on the other side. Good to hear. Also, I just ran across Chapter 4 in the pcb user manual, which covers the autorouter. It mentions a slightly different method of drawing “continuous lines” to define keep-out zones. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
