Hi,
When I am routing air wires from a via, sometimes I get a yellow 'X'
that doesn't disappear unless I rip up the trace and reroute. Is there
a way to get rid of these some other way?
cheers,
Jamie
Hi,
When I am routing air wires from a via, sometimes I get a yellow 'X'
that doesn't disappear unless I rip up the trace and reroute. Is there
a way to get rid of these some other way?
cheers,
Jamie
Tilmann Reh wrote:
Jamie Morken schrieb:
When I am routing air wires from a via, sometimes I get a yellow 'X'
that doesn't disappear unless I rip up the trace and reroute. Is there
a way to get rid of these some other way?
The "X" is the visual indication for a "vertical" air wire. In earlier
versions, there was only a dot (line of zero length and width), which
was very hard to see.
Hi,
Thanks, on a two layer board I don't understand why there would be a
vertical air wire though 
I think routing vertically is taken
care of by the via!
cheers,
Jamie
Tilmann
Jamie Morken schrieb:
When I am routing air wires from a via, sometimes I get a yellow 'X'
that doesn't disappear unless I rip up the trace and reroute. Is there
a way to get rid of these some other way?
The "X" is the visual indication for a "vertical" air wire. In earlier
versions, there was only a dot (line of zero length and width), which
was very hard to see.
Thanks, on a two layer board I don't understand why there would be a
vertical air wire though
I think routing vertically is taken
care of by the via!
Maybe you just overlooked a detail.
Does the X disappear when you run RATSNEST? If the nets are correctly
connected, it should.
It would also be interesting to know after which operations (exactly!)
those crosses appear. Here they have always been correct so far...
Tilmann
Tilmann Reh wrote:
Jamie Morken schrieb:
When I am routing air wires from a via, sometimes I get a yellow 'X'
that doesn't disappear unless I rip up the trace and reroute. Is there
a way to get rid of these some other way?
The "X" is the visual indication for a "vertical" air wire. In earlier
versions, there was only a dot (line of zero length and width), which
was very hard to see.
Thanks, on a two layer board I don't understand why there would be a
vertical air wire though
I think routing vertically is taken
care of by the via!
Maybe you just overlooked a detail.
Does the X disappear when you run RATSNEST? If the nets are correctly
connected, it should.
Hi,
No the X's stay after ratsnest, I usually only get a couple every time
I route a PCB.
It would also be interesting to know after which operations (exactly!)
those crosses appear. Here they have always been correct so far...
I am pretty sure they mainly occur in the situation where I am routing
a track starting at a via, and eagle defaults the route layer to the
wrong one, so I manually switch back to the desired routing layer, and
eagle places a via on top of the one already there in this case. Once I
delete one of the overlapped vias then sometimes there is an X that
doesn't disappear on the remaining via still 
When routing from a via
I think eagle should use the currently selected routing layer as well.
cheers,
Jamie
Tilmann
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 Jamie Morken wrote saying :
I am pretty sure they mainly occur in the situation where I am routing
a track starting at a via, and eagle defaults the route layer to the
wrong one, so I manually switch back to the desired routing layer, and
eagle places a via on top of the one already there in this case. Once
I
delete one of the overlapped vias then sometimes there is an X that
doesn't disappear on the remaining via still
When routing from a
via
I think eagle should use the currently selected routing layer as well.
When I route from a via it always does use the selected layer.
Furthermore, if I don't want that I can swap layers during routing and
not get an extra via. Indeed, if I have a track that runs along the
bottom to a via, then the top to another via, then back to bottom, I can
"Change layer" on the middle section and both vias completely vanish.
Perhaps you need to zoom right in and see if there's actually a very
tiny unwanted track on your via. That could cause the sort of bad
behaviour you see.
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