Merging two different nets

I'm relatively new to Eagle. I want thick 28 mil traces going to my 3 amp components, with thinner 16 mil traces brancing off to my 500 ma components. With Eagle 5, I believe merging two nets like this required the use of a jumper library and dismissing some DRC errors. Is there a better workflow in Eagle 6? Thanks for the help.

fritzz over 11 years ago

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but don't you just name them the same to merge?
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Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to fritzz

If you name them the same, one has to join the other "net" and adopt its trace width. Right?
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autodeskguest over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

Jeremy Williams wrote:

If you name them the same, one has to join the other "net" and adopt its
trace width. Right?

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Yes to the first, no to the second. If the net has an associated class, the
class may enforce some trace width restrictions, but otherwise Eagle has no
problem with different trace widths on different segments of the same net.
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Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

CadSoft Guest wrote:

Yes to the first, no to the second. If the net has an associated class, the
class may enforce some trace width restrictions, but otherwise Eagle has no
problem with different trace widths on different segments of the same net.

Hm... How do you have a wire or net without a class? It seems that every new wire I draw gets the default class automatically, unless it joins a different one.
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autodeskguest over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

Jeremy Williams wrote:

CadSoft Guest wrote:

Yes to the first, no to the second. If the net has an associated
class, the
class may enforce some trace width restrictions, but otherwise Eagle
has no
problem with different trace widths on different segments of the same
net.

Hm... Maybe I need to merge net classes then. I am relying on freeroute
to lay my traces, and as far as I can tell there's no way to assign
trace widths on the schematic view without uses net classes. Am I wrong?

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Perhaps not. I've never used freeroute; if it requires net classes to set
trace width that could be an issue.

Bob
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