[PEDA] routing uncompleted III

2002-02-05 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
i said: i did a design rules check and i had 15 shorts and 15 corresponding clearance constraints. scared me good! i looked at some of the problems and there were vias and traces with no net. i was clueless. they wouldn't go away with an unroute. mr. lomax said: This is what happens when

Re: [PEDA] routing uncompleted III

2002-02-05 Thread Brock Russell
At 06:59 AM 2/5/02 -0500, miker wrote: is there no way to get rid of all those junk vias and traces that an uncompleted autoroute appears to place, other than doing it manually? why did the autorouter go into an endless loop? i've never had trouble with the autorouter before. the board is not

Re: [PEDA] routing uncompleted III

2002-02-05 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
hi brock, thanks for the suggestion on doing an undo instead of an unroute. sounds like a good one. miker *** I don't think you should do an Un-route after a failed autorouter pass. An Undo will remove all the junk and take you back to where you started. I have only

[PEDA] Routing uncompleted ??

2002-02-04 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
hello, i had a 4 layer board with 2 planes and 2 layers of traces. it routed 100% but then was taking forever trying to resolve contentions. i stopped it and added two more layers for traces. its now going to 99% routing completion and stopping, with 2 connections remaining. this took under 3

[PEDA] routing uncompleted II

2002-02-04 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
earlier i posted: i had a 4 layer board with 2 planes and 2 layers of traces. it routed 100% but then was taking forever trying to resolve contentions. i stopped it and added two more layers for traces. its now going to 99% routing completion and stopping, with 2 connections remaining. this

Re: [PEDA] routing uncompleted II

2002-02-04 Thread Dennis Saputelli
we generally have a few unrouted and generally they are surprisingly easy to put in Dennis Saputelli Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: earlier i posted: i had a 4 layer board with 2 planes and 2 layers of traces. it routed 100% but then was taking forever trying to resolve contentions. i

Re: [PEDA] routing uncompleted II

2002-02-04 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
Dennis Saputelli said: we generally have a few unrouted and generally they are surprisingly easy to put in. *** thanks dennis, i did a design rules check and i had 15 shorts and 15 corresponding clearance constraints. scared me good! i looked at some of the problems and

Re: [PEDA] routing uncompleted II

2002-02-04 Thread Dwight
Well, if you stop an autoroute session, and then re-started it without unrouting what it did, and you have lock all pre-routes checked, then it's possible that would happen. When you do a Tools | Unroute | All, you get a prompt for including locked primitives. If you say Yes, it SHOULD get rid

Re: [PEDA] routing uncompleted II

2002-02-04 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:33 PM 2/4/2002 -0500, Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: i did a design rules check and i had 15 shorts and 15 corresponding clearance constraints. scared me good! i looked at some of the problems and there were vias and traces with no net. i was clueless. This is what happens when the