Hello Dick, you are right, i made it this way. It is really no problem on a small board.
Marcus --- In [email protected], Dick Hollenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a complicated board this can mean hundreds of extra tracks. I found > that a pain, and we have had discussions on how to deal with this > deficiency. The current hurdle is lack of time to fix it. > > > On a simple board, it is not much of a problem. Simply run the few > tracks as mentioned. > > > On a complicated board, I usually do the routing (manually, and to a > lesser degree incremental autorouting) using freerouter. In such a > case, that tool has an "Incompletes" button to show unconnected nets. > It recognizes the power planes. So if I don't get incompletes in that > tool, when the board is imported back into pcbnew, I simply ignore the > unconnected nets at that point, refill all the zones, and generate the > gerbers. > > > Note however that I have recently seen a situation where the resolution > of gerber rasters was not tight enough to connect to a power/ground pin, > and had to go back and actually route one or two of those ground pins > with tracks anyway, simply because being over the zone was not > sufficient, due to the imprecise way that copper is generated into a > zone. This was a case where my track to track spacing was set at 4 mils > and a zone could not fit in between that gap to get to the ground pin, > and the pin was surface mount and the zone was on the same layer. > > Spending some time inspecting the gerbers is always worth it, and the 3d > viewer is also useful for the copper on the board. > > Dick >
