Hi there I have a couple of questions I was hoping someone could help me with?
I want to create a single sided PCB with a ground plane on the same side as the tracks. I am trying to create a fairly simple PCB with a microcontroller on it and some IO. I found that the auto router is not able to route all of the tracks. However I have found that it routes the GND tracks as well. I think this is because you auto route all the tracks before putting in the Zone. Is there some way you can auto route everything apart from the GND tracks and then connect the GND's with the zone fill? Also when I use the Zone fill it doesn't seem to work correctly. I have been playing around with this for ages and can't work out what's going on. I have gone through the tutorial on this but still can't make any sense of it. When the zone is filled the GND pins on components are connected to the zone. However, the tracks are not separated from the zone. I.e. I see the track on top of the zone fill without any gap around the edge of it. (I have ensure both the tracks, components and zone fill are all set to copper). Additionally is there some way you can configure the auto router to auto route with "jumpers/bridges" i.e. small pieces of wire to jump over tracks? I tried setting it to do a double sided PCB but it seems to split the number of tracks evenly between the two sides and therefore not really making it feasible to do. Regards David
