At 11:33 AM 20/03/2002 -0800, Brad Velander wrote: >Tim, > if the hide nets all is not appropriate, you can usually get a >significant performance increase by singling out your most used nets to be >hidden. Usually GND. > >Sincerely, >Brad Velander.
When P98 (I think) first came out it had the new net analyser that offered us (according to the marketting stuff) "unbreakable connectivity". It was quickly found that the net analyser could take an excessive period of time to do its thing. Protel's solution was to hide the all, or at least, the biggest nets - I thought there was old KB item or two that covers this but I can't seem to find it. I had a board that would not speed up significantly after all the nets were hidden, in discussions with Protel it seems that another slow down to the analyser is excessive numbers of rules. It may have been a board which had been imported from an older version and so all the design rules for pad expansions etc were created. So if you are seeing the analyser being too slow: 1) Firstly, as others have said, try hiding all or at least the biggest nets 2) Then, see if big pours are the problem (possibly also overlapping pours of the same net) (although this problem is, according to the Protel KB, "improved" in P99SE compared to P98) 3) Finally, see if you can rationalise design rules. Make use of net and pad classes etc to reduce the number of rules Ian Wilson * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
