Drawing wire on a layer

"Olin Lathrop" <eagle@embedinc.com> wrote in message

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Morten Leikvoll wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 04:48

First, imagine if you have two different airwires at the same point (at

 

different layers). When you draw a wire (not route, but wire!) it will

hook up to one of them. Uless the wire you draw is a continuation of an

existing wire or pad, it just connects to one of the airwires (I do not

know

wich one it prefers). What I try to say is that in the case your wire is

not

meeting any other wires or smd's, it should not hook up to the airwire.

 

This still isn't making much sense.  I guess you are in the board editor,

but why are you using WIRE instead of ROUTE to draw copper traces?

Whenever you click on something and there are multiple options nearby,

I've

always seen Eagle highlight one of them, then right click cycles thru the

available ones, then you left click to confirm the specific choice.  What

happens when you use ROUTE?

Every time you comment my stuff, you are teaching me to do things YOUR way..

Please stop that I know just as many tricks that works for me as

you probably do for yourself.

I  used this to strengthen some polygon fills. The general spacing I use

doesnt make the fill between some via's, but I accept some smaller clearance

at some places, and therefore use wire's between those via's (and rename it

to whatever I want) to make the airwire disappear (after ratsnest). You may

discuss the correctness of this, but I'm not interested in hearing right now

It can be fixed by not drawing a wire between airwires, rather move the ends

after drawing, so its not a dead critical issue, its just not right, and

thats why I posted this.

"Olin Lathrop" <eagle@embedinc.com> wrote in message

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Morten Leikvoll wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 04:48

First, imagine if you have two different airwires at the same point (at

 

different layers). When you draw a wire (not route, but wire!) it will

hook up to one of them. Uless the wire you draw is a continuation of an

existing wire or pad, it just connects to one of the airwires (I do not

know

wich one it prefers). What I try to say is that in the case your wire is

not

meeting any other wires or smd's, it should not hook up to the airwire.

 

This still isn't making much sense.  I guess you are in the board editor,

but why are you using WIRE instead of ROUTE to draw copper traces?

Whenever you click on something and there are multiple options nearby,

I've

always seen Eagle highlight one of them, then right click cycles thru the

available ones, then you left click to confirm the specific choice.  What

happens when you use ROUTE?

Every time you comment my stuff, you are teaching me to do things YOUR way..

Please stop that I know just as many tricks that works for me as

you probably do for yourself.

I  used this to strengthen some polygon fills. The general spacing I use

doesnt make the fill between some via's, but I accept some smaller clearance

at some places, and therefore use wire's between those via's (and rename it

to whatever I want) to make the airwire disappear (after ratsnest). You may

discuss the correctness of this, but I'm not interested in hearing right now

It can be fixed by not drawing a wire between airwires, rather move the ends

after drawing, so its not a dead critical issue, its just not right, and

thats why I posted this.