Hi Dean,

What software are you using, which version ?

Regards,
Darren Moore

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> This is a nagging problem I haven't been able to get around 
> yet, and I'm 
> sure that someone else has run into the same thing ...  I 
> have a couple of 
> nice pcb logo footprints done that go on our boards, 
> originally built from 
> one of the bmp-2-pcb programs, then manually tweaked up.  They mainly 
> consist of a bunch of TINY (1 and 2mil) tracks and arcs, some 
> judicious use 
> of small keepout tracks and a keepout border around the logo. 
>  Looks pretty 
> good.
> 
> The problem is with Design Rule Check.  It always complains 
> about the width 
> and proximity of the tiny tracks that make up the logo.  
> There doesn't seem 
> to be any way to assign them to a given net, so I could use a 
> Design Rule 
> for that specific net.  In the Library editor for a track, there's a 
> pulldown for the net, but the only selection is "No Net" and I can't 
> override it.
> 
> In the PCB editor you can't get to the individual tracks of 
> the logo - it's 
> just the monolithic part.  I can partly get around it ...  
> Create a new net 
> for the logo, then explode the component to primitives  
> Select all the 
> connected copper and assign to the new net, and use that for 
> a width rule. 
> That works, but it still hangs up on clearance constraints.  
> Also, worse, 
> the component is now gone, and next time an update it done, 
> the synchronizer 
> wants to put the logo component back on.
> 
> I've tried creating pads for all the copper runs in the 
> footprint.  Then use 
> a schematic part with the right number of pins, and assign 
> nets that way. 
> That works - the pads have the right net, but all the tracks 
> that make up 
> the logo don't, and don't seem to want to take it.
> 
> The goes with the "using top/bottom layer tracks for a 
> footprint" problem 
> I've heard and experienced ...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dean Carpenter
> deano at areyes com
> 94TT :) 


 
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