A wild guess here, as I've never done anything like that :-) How does the system know that you can get to the VSS layer from the component layer? If things work with a DIP, would placing a via do the same job? It would seem logical to me that if you want to route to an inner layer then you need to place a via between it and the component layer.
I'm not sure if this can be done automatically (there is a way to pair layers for via use section 5.4 of the help) Andy On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:28:32 -0000 "gregory.dyess" <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, this thing is about to make me pull my hair out! > > I am trying my best to lay out a surface mount board and running into all > kinds of problems. > > 1. It doesn't seem to want to route a VSS pad on an SMD to the underlying VSS > plane on the layer next to it! > > 2. It doesn't even seem to recognize there even IS a relationship! > > 3. It routes traces right through the middle of an edge card connector. > > I thought maybe I set up the VSS layer (ZONE) incorrectly, so I placed a DIP > right next to an SMD component and sure enough, it immediately placed a > connection to the VSS layer right under the pad and then proceeded to route a > line on the component layer to the VSS pin of the SMD chip next to it! > > What could I be doing wrong here? > > Thanks, > Greg > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
