Connect vias in bottom plane, and increasing supply to smd pads

On 26/09/14 17:59, Vebjørn Røed Myklebust wrote:

2 questions:

1) how do i connect these two segments? (see pic) The vias have the same

name as the net. but when i try to use the routing-tool in the bottom

plane, it automatically pops back up to the top plane..

 

Which end are you starting from? The end of the airwire towards the top

of the image doesn't come from the via, so starting there will be forced

onto the top layer. Try routing from the other via, or using

click. You may still need to re-select bottom after you start

routing, but normally you shouldn't as long as Eagle knows you're

starting from a via.

2) How to i increase the thickness of the "legs" that connect the smd

solder pads, to the rest of the ground-plane? (also see pic)

 

The automatic connections to a polygon are formed at the wire width of

the polygon, I think. Edit the properties of your ground plane polygon

to have a sensible width.

On 27/09/2014 6:24 a.m., Rob Pearce wrote:

On 26/09/14 17:59, Vebjørn Røed Myklebust wrote:

2 questions:

1) how do i connect these two segments? (see pic) The vias have the same

name as the net. but when i try to use the routing-tool in the bottom

plane, it automatically pops back up to the top plane..

 

Which end are you starting from? The end of the airwire towards the top

of the image doesn't come from the via, so starting there will be forced

onto the top layer. Try routing from the other via, or using

<ctrl>click. You may still need to re-select bottom after you start

routing, but normally you shouldn't as long as Eagle knows you're

starting from a via.

 

2) How to i increase the thickness of the "legs" that connect the smd

solder pads, to the rest of the ground-plane? (also see pic)

 

The automatic connections to a polygon are formed at the wire width of

the polygon, I think. Edit the properties of your ground plane polygon

to have a sensible width.

 

I see there is another problem with the Element14 front end to the

EagleCad forums.

Rob wrote "click" and only "click" is displayed by Element14.

Fingers crossed that the double quotes in this message will assist here.

Warren

On 27/09/2014 7:42 a.m., warrenbrayshaw wrote:

On 27/09/2014 6:24 a.m., Rob Pearce wrote:

On 26/09/14 17:59, Vebjørn Røed Myklebust wrote:

2 questions:

1) how do i connect these two segments? (see pic) The vias have the same

name as the net. but when i try to use the routing-tool in the bottom

plane, it automatically pops back up to the top plane..

 

Which end are you starting from? The end of the airwire towards the top

of the image doesn't come from the via, so starting there will be forced

onto the top layer. Try routing from the other via, or using

<ctrl>click. You may still need to re-select bottom after you start

routing, but normally you shouldn't as long as Eagle knows you're

starting from a via.

 

2) How to i increase the thickness of the "legs" that connect the smd

solder pads, to the rest of the ground-plane? (also see pic)

 

The automatic connections to a polygon are formed at the wire width of

the polygon, I think. Edit the properties of your ground plane polygon

to have a sensible width.

 

 

I see there is another problem with the Element14 front end to the

EagleCad forums.

 

Rob wrote "<ctrl>click" and only "click" is displayed by Element14.

Fingers crossed that the double quotes in this message will assist here.

 

Warren

Nope that didn't work. So I'll try again using square brackets

> Rob wrote "[ctrl]click" and only "click" is displayed by Element14.