I can tell you what *I do*, even if most people don't like it. It does makes board up to my standards:
1) I route manualy only the part that I want with wide tracks, usualy a contour and a few connectors. 2) then there is a problem: the autorouter does not use that track very well (not only kicad's, most don't, don't know about freeroute), so I have to connect manualy most ground pins with thin tracks to the wide track 3) then the autoroute usualy runs smoothly Alain wdoe999 escreveu: > Hi - I tried using the free java router and it seems pretty neat. > > I typically want to make my power and ground tracks wider than the others. > However, I do not want simple I/O lines that are connected to power and > ground to be wide. > > How can I design my schematic or PCB so that the router will only make wide > tracks for the actual power and ground nets? > > I suppose that, on the schematic, I could make completely separate nets (one > set for real power and ground, and another set for I/O lines connected to > power and ground). However, the problem that I see if that with separate > nets, an I/O pin may want to route to another pin on the other side of the > board when there is a power/ground pin available from the other net that is > closer (I hope I'm explaining that right). > > The only other thought I have is manual routing, or let th autorouter so as > much as possible and then ho back and change the trace widths manually. > > Thanks > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > >
