Gary, Personally I don't have much experience with the Protel autorouter. But if you really intend to use it in your setup: Why don't you let the router just use the outer layers for routing and do the rest manually on the inner layers? This way you have much more control over your power supply routing. Or just do the power routing manually, lock preroutes and let the autorouter do the rest.
No idea if one of this will work, however that would be the way I would try this. Regards, Emanuel --- MPL AG www.mpl.ch Emanuel Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager R&D Phone: +41 56 483'34'34 Taefernstrasse 20 Fax: +41 56 493'30'20 CH-5405 Daettwil --- Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01.10.2003 18:50:59: > I have a couple of questions about the autorouter and multilayer boards. > > I know everyone will say to manually route it, and I will probably end > up doing it manually, but is there a way to use the autorouter and > specify the preferred layer to route the net on? I would like to do a 4 > layer design and I want to use the outer layers as much as I can and the > autorouter just seems to pick whatever layer it feels like if I use 4 > routing layers and no power planes. The downfall of this is that I was > thinking of just placing a polygon fill for the power planes but this > routing strategy cuts up the polygons too much and I am not happy with > the gnd plane this way. > > Or, is there a way to allow the autorouter to place a net class on the > inner ground or power plane layer? This is why I am using 4 routing > layers, when really all I would like to do is to route my data and > address busses on the inner layers since my power nets are not > complicated and there is a lot of unused real estate there. > > Thank you for you input, > Regards, > Gary Allbee > Alta Industrial Automation Ltd > www.aialtd.com > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
