Colin D Bennett wrote: > Does anyone have any tips on how to plan a layout for easy and clean > track routing? In particular for 2-layer boards.
Put extra care into component placement. IMHO, placement is more critical to the design than routing. > 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. Yep. This is a good default. It avoids road blocks by tracks on both sides. > Do you ever use the pcb autorouter Rarely. > or do you always route by hand? Mostly. > Do you ever study other people's PCB designs to learn from them? Sometimes I look with awe at computer motherboards ;-) ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user