Drawing wire on a layer

Morten Leikvoll wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 07:29

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

way..

Please stop that

You seem to be going out of your way to use Eagle in ways it wasn't

intended, then complain when it doesn't work.  Try embracing the tool

instead of fighting it.

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I used this to strengthen some polygon fills.

It's still not clear what "this" is.  Maybe a picture would help.

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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).

So if I understand this right, you have a polygon with a certain spacing

parameter.  That spacing causes the polygon to be broken up near some vias

because there isn't enough clearance to flow between them?  And in some of

those cases you want to manually add the trace because you know the

clearance is really OK in those areas?  If that's the case, you could have

just said so.  If not, then I'm still confused and a better description is

still needed.

If the above guess as to what you really want is correct, then I still

don't see why you need to use WIRE instead of ROUTE as intended by Eagle.

There is a better chance Eagle understands the connections made by ROUTE,

and the user interface regarding airwires should be clearer.  Have you

tried ROUTE?  Either way you will get lots of DRC errors, so that shouldn't

be the difference.

Quote:

You may discuss the correctness of this, but I'm not interested in

hearing right now

You started this thread.  Discussing the correct or best use of the tool is

legitimate and relevant, whether you wish to hear it or not.

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Morten Leikvoll wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 07:29

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

way..

Please stop that

You seem to be going out of your way to use Eagle in ways it wasn't

intended, then complain when it doesn't work.  Try embracing the tool

instead of fighting it.

Quote:

I used this to strengthen some polygon fills.

It's still not clear what "this" is.  Maybe a picture would help.

Quote:

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).

So if I understand this right, you have a polygon with a certain spacing

parameter.  That spacing causes the polygon to be broken up near some vias

because there isn't enough clearance to flow between them?  And in some of

those cases you want to manually add the trace because you know the

clearance is really OK in those areas?  If that's the case, you could have

just said so.  If not, then I'm still confused and a better description is

still needed.

If the above guess as to what you really want is correct, then I still

don't see why you need to use WIRE instead of ROUTE as intended by Eagle.

There is a better chance Eagle understands the connections made by ROUTE,

and the user interface regarding airwires should be clearer.  Have you

tried ROUTE?  Either way you will get lots of DRC errors, so that shouldn't

be the difference.

Quote:

You may discuss the correctness of this, but I'm not interested in

hearing right now

You started this thread.  Discussing the correct or best use of the tool is

legitimate and relevant, whether you wish to hear it or not.

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