First thing to note is that I don't use freerouter, just the manual kicad system. I've found that I can do a better job with small single sided boards. However when laying out the board I work the copper side as much as possible (obviously), and then use the component side for links. I just route the component side tracks, and increase the via sizes to something similar to a normal pad. The component side tracks become the location guide for links.
I've though about using zero ohm resistors as you have, but what you really need is a zero ohm resistor that is elastic, so that you can change it's pin spacing during layout. Unfort. that does not exist, and I've found that using the component side tracks works just as well. Andy On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:39:49 -0000 "Marc Hillman" <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect I know the answer to this ("No"), but I'll ask anyway. I wish to > produce a SINGLE layer board. FreeRouter almost gets the board routed, but > there's a few tracks it can't complete. I'd like to put a few wire links in > to help it. Apart from manual intervention, is there a way to do this? The > only solution I can think of is to add a 0 ohm resistor, but this (a) looks > really ugly on the schematic, and (b) doesn't help much as you have to > manually place the link anyway. > > How do people handle wire 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 > > >
