On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:20:00 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: >> 3) Auto router and manual line drawing tool interpret line clearance >> differently. If clearance is set to 10 mil for a particular route style, >> the auto routed lines will punch a 10 mil gap into polygons. With manually >> drawn lines the gap is just 5 mil. I'd say, the auto router is correct. > > According to the documentation, "clearance" is the amount added to the > thickness of the line, so a 10 mil clearance should result in a 5 mil > gap on each side of the line. At least, that's what the file format > spec says.
Sorry, I confused manually and auto routed tracks (see the other post). So it seems the autorouter acts according to the file format spec. Meanwhile the manually routed tracks follow common sense ;-) Anyway, both should act the same. >> 4) Rubber band move of automatically generated vias results in a mess of >> tracks. Some tiny tracklets seem to be expanded rather than moved. > > Have you tried running the optimizer after autorouting? This is about manually routed tracks with vias inserted on the fly after a change of layers. I tried the optimizer anyway, but to no avail. The mess seems to occure only, if there are short tracks completely hidden under the via. ---<(kaimartin>)--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user