As a rather inexperienced PCB designer, I find that I have to throw away two or three layouts until I get one that is usable--and still not entirely satisfactory. I always end up with such a mess of traces that I know I need better organization and a method to the madness. But I am a newb with little knowledge so I fall back on trial-and-error.
Does anyone have any tips on how to plan a layout for easy and clean track routing? In particular for 2-layer boards. One strategy that I have seen and recently tried is to use the top layer for all horizontal trace runs and the bottom layer for all vertical trace runs, or vice-versa. Do you ever use the pcb autorouter or do you always route by hand? Do you ever study other people's PCB designs to learn from them? I think you could find both good and bad examples: things to emulate and things to avoid yourself. Thanks for any suggestions. There are some incredibly experienced and talented electronic designers on the list and I'd love to learn anything I can from you all. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user