showing traces

Hoyt wrote:

I am looking into some grounding routes & width issues.  How do you show

ONLY the ground traces, or whatever net name you want to see, all over the

board?  Basically I want to turn off the viewing of all nets other than the

one I specify.  I don't want to  muddy the image  with hundereds/thousands

of other traces.

you can't

what you can do is highlight one or several nets with the show

command.

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Lorenz

That's not good at all.  The highlighting really doesn't work, you still

can't tell where the traces are.   You need to be able to show only the

signal you are interested in seeing, to see how it is routed all around the

board. There are too many traces crowding the screen to pick out the signal

you want.

This function should be added immediately, would be helpful

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I suppose you can ripup everything that is not the trace you want to study,

though this seems dangerous.  Then you can see clearly the pattern of the

trace--where it zigzags around the board, branches, T's, alternates layers

18 times, etc. 

If you undo, are there any issues with Eagle restoring everything back?  Of

course with ripup, any editing done of the showing trace becomes a mess (in

terms of thereafter restoring all the other traces).

When can this issue be resolved??

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On 18/09/2015 5:32 p.m., Hoyt wrote:

I am looking into some grounding routes & width issues.  How do you show

ONLY the ground traces, or whatever net name you want to see, all over the

board?  Basically I want to turn off the viewing of all nets other than the

one I specify.  I don't want to  muddy the image  with hundereds/thousands

of other traces.

 

What you can do is the following. The description assumes you are using

the Black palette and default palette.

Create/run  a script that changes the lowlight colours of the copper

layers to a grey. At this point all your traces will be that colour.

When you SHOW a net it will appear in the hi-light colour and it is very

obvious where it routes to.

When you are done with the grey view just run the script that comes with

eagle defaultcolors.scr

HTH

Warren

Attachments:

8551.grey_traces.scr.zip

THANKS--this approach does an excellent job.

I think you can see why this viewing mode  is helpful

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By the way, your attached picture is so wonderful--this should be the

default show viewing mode, puts the current one to shame

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