--- In [email protected], "Alain M." <ala...@...> wrote: > > I assume that this is an answer to my suggestion... (you have been > overly economical deleting all the previous text) > > wdoe999 escreveu: > > Thanks I will give that a try. > > I'll find this out when I try it, but I'm assuming that the autorouter does > > not optimize the manually routed tracks? In other words, I should make an > > effort to carefully route these big tracks and live with the extra vias > > that the autorouter will use to try and cope with the immovable tracks? > > what usualy happens is this: a component's pad in the GND net can be > just next to a wide GND track, but the router will not see that track. > It will try to connect to all other pads in the GND net. Sometimes if > the track is broken in two segments it works, but I am not sure of that > > Alain > I gave it a try and it works OK. I do have to leave the hand routed tracks as fixed tracks. If I make them unfixed, the router will try and move and optimize them (which I would like) but it also resizes them to skinny tracks (shucks). So I definitely need to take care when placing the hand routed thick tracks as they won't be optimized.
Thanks Now I've got another prob - time to open a new thread.
