I'm looking forward to the PCB conference that's coming soon to see if the new router will work better. Protel is supposed to be showing something.
Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Elson > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 12:31 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Limitations on InternalPlane layers > > > "Cobbe,John" wrote: > > > Hi Kiernan > > You will not be able to route on the internal plane layers. > > There is a way to do this. You can define a new split plane region > for every net you will route on the plane. If there are just a few nets > left to route, and they won't mind a lot of extra capacitance, then this > will work. Many times, there might be a reset signal, voltage reference > or some other signal that can be routed on the plane layer to allow other > nets the room to be routed on the signal layers. > > Usually, I can find some awful "knot" that the autorouter has created > that blocks many routes form being made. After a manual cleanup > pass to remove the knots and traces that have been placed to violate > the layer bias, it is possible to complete the routing with > little trouble. > > Jon > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
