On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Brooke Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now when you're doing the layout you can turn on checking and all the pads > for the currently active note light up in a different color. By stepping > through all the nodes you can confirm that they are all connected to each > other. A good feature to look for is autorouting. and design rule checking. Of course every engineer thinks he is smarter than this kind of software. Mostly he is but it is good to use software that simply will not allow some kinds of errors. Design rules generally are things like following the schematic and the geometry of traces and limits of the PCB fab like line widths. I've used "rat's nest" routing too. This allows you to place the parts on the PCB and then does the interconnects with "as the crow flies" traces that cross and can't possibly work but they are drawn in red. you click them one at a time and rout them. As you place components you can see the rats net and you move them around to minimize the crossings. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
