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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

I am making a small board and I put two resistors at the exact same coordinates but on opposite layers.  They are SMT capacitors, both going to the same through-hole power pin.

 

The problem is that I don't see the ratsnest for the bottom one if the caps are exactly "on top" of each other (but on different layers, as I said).  If they are slightly offset it's fine.  If they are at the same coordinates I just see two yellow Xs.  It's as if it doesn't realize it's an SMT part, and when they are connected to each other it thinks I should have a via.

 

Could this be my layer setup?  (1+2*3+16) is what it's set to now, though I don't really understand exactly what that means.

 

When the two components aren't colocated it looks like this:

image

 

but when I place C10 (the one on the bottom) where I want, it looks like this:

 

image

 

--Chris

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    e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Christopher Piggott wrote:

    >Never mind.  I figured out that the yellow X is a zero-length unrouted wire

     

    I would not call it zero length as the X is telling that there are at

    least two overlapping ends of the same net in different layers.

     

    So in topview it might seem zero length, in truth you are looking at

    the end of a vertical (unrooted) connection 8-)

    --

     

    Lorenz

     

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    e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

    Never mind.  I figured out that the yellow X is a zero-length unrouted wire and that you can pick it up and route it just like any other wire.  I'll leave this post in case it helps somebody else who has the same non-problem.

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