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How to make tidy trace ends

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In the attached screenshot, I have a fat trace entering a rectangular pad

from below (you can see an identical pad just above it).  Is there any way

to prevent the stub (outlined in yellow) from extending beyond the pad?  I

can't figure out how.  Thanks.

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  • Op Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:34:29 +0200 schreef Karl Lautman <karl@lautman.com>:

     

    In the attached screenshot, I have a fat trace entering a rectangular pad

    from below (you can see an identical pad just above it).  Is there any 

    way

    to prevent the stub (outlined in yellow) from extending beyond the pad?  

    I

    can't figure out how.  Thanks.

     

     

    Set your routing grid temporarily to a very fine pitch en shorten the 

    'fat' track (F7) till it's rounded end is hidden beneath the SMD pad.

    That is, of course, assuming the pad is bigger than the rounded track end. 

    Certainly looks that way in the image.

     

    Richard

     

  • Karl Lautman wrote:

    In the attached screenshot, I have a fat trace entering a rectangular

    pad from below (you can see an identical pad just above it).  Is

    there any way to prevent the stub (outlined in yellow) from extending

    beyond the pad?  I can't figure out how.  Thanks.

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    If you change the width of the trace approaching the pad from the bottom you

    will see the stub reduce.

    Wires  go from point to point with no width. When you give them width they

    expand out from the wire in all directions by half the width so the ends

    extend as well, hence your stub.

     

    On occasion, to understand what's happening  it is useful to temporarily

    change the fill of the solid layer to a pattern  In that way you see the

    form of the object. This is particularly useful with polygons.

     

     

    HTH

    Warren

     

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