Ahhhh, now I see what you mean. I will double-check this as I know we had to go back and touch up some of the board edges after the entire board was drawn. This will probably require hand-editing of the .brd file.
Am I the only one that actually hand-edits the disk files to correct errors? I also find it very helpful when I have to mass edit a schematic, for example to assign values to all the bypass caps adjacent to the ICs. Thanks again, Greg ________________________________ From: Frank Bennett <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:04:55 PM Subject: [kicad-users] Re: PLEASE help....Anyone out there??? --- In [email protected], Greg Dyess <gregory.dy...@...> wrote: > > I did just that. I even opened up the board's .brd file and checked all of > the numbers in there to make sure. Any other suggestions as to where to look? > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Dick H. <d...@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:39:48 PM > Subject: [kicad-users] Re: PLEASE help....Anyone out there??? > > >The freerouter also has trouble paying attention to the actual edges >of the > >PCB and has a distorted shape. > > > No this is not freerouter's fault.. It is mostly likely that your board > perimeter is not proper in Kicad. You have to zoom in and make dead sure > that all your "edges_pcb" type lines are contiguous, EXACTLY. > > That is the ending point of one line or arc must be EXACTLY the same point as > the next line or arc's starting point. > > If you click on a line, the status bar should tell you the exact endpoints of > the line in coordinate space. Walk around your board and tie them together > please. > > Dick > They also need to be a contiguous closed set of segments. Can't put a few segments on one side and jump to others on a different side. A ---B---C | | D--------E needs to be AB,BC,CE,ED close not AB,CE,BC,DE close or other combo the code will swap AB, with BA on a vertex pair basis only but (will not yet) sort a non-contiguous set of segments. Best to make one continuous [counter or]clock wise construction. Oh, what is the difference between a segment or polygon bound zone? Frank > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > ------------------------------------ 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
