Re: gEDA-user: Restrict facility?
Am 10.11.2010 um 06:09 schrieb DJ Delorie: a) There is no such facility. This one. We've been talking about a redesign to pcb's internals that would allow support for this, but at the moment, we don't have it. Isn't there the route layer? I've seen special handling of this layer in many source code files, but didn't test yet, what it actually does. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Restrict facility?
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:09:50 -0500 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: a) There is no such facility. This one. We've been talking about a redesign to pcb's internals that would allow support for this, but at the moment, we don't have it. Could you emulate it in the current version of pcb by drawing a rectangle/polygon on the area you wish to become the keep-out region? Would the autorouter then avoid it? Regards, Colin ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Restrict facility?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 10.11.2010 19:06, schrieb Colin D Bennett: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:09:50 -0500 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: a) There is no such facility. This one. We've been talking about a redesign to pcb's internals that would allow support for this, but at the moment, we don't have it. Could you emulate it in the current version of pcb by drawing a rectangle/polygon on the area you wish to become the keep-out region? Would the autorouter then avoid it? Regards, Colin ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user The trick with the rectangle works, I used it on my board to separate the control section (TTL) of a solid state relais from the 220 V section. The autorouter kept the digital signals on one side and the 220 V signals on the other side. - -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Dietmar Schmunkamp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzbB+AACgkQn22l+QvEah3MugCghCsdYvPuowtxObIPsupQt3se 8ycAn0o43HmLRSSjdT8hsxNbYfTYDjYW =Ao4b -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Restrict facility?
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:00:16 +0100 Dietmar Schmunkamp diet...@schmunkamp.name wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 10.11.2010 19:06, schrieb Colin D Bennett: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:09:50 -0500 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: a) There is no such facility. This one. We've been talking about a redesign to pcb's internals that would allow support for this, but at the moment, we don't have it. Could you emulate it in the current version of pcb by drawing a rectangle/polygon on the area you wish to become the keep-out region? Would the autorouter then avoid it? The trick with the rectangle works, I used it on my board to separate the control section (TTL) of a solid state relais from the 220 V section. The autorouter kept the digital signals on one side and the 220 V signals on the other side. Good to hear. Also, I just ran across Chapter 4 in the pcb user manual, which covers the autorouter. It mentions a slightly different method of drawing “continuous lines” to define keep-out zones. Regards, Colin ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
gEDA-user: Restrict facility?
I am looking at migrating from Eagle to PCB and thus am a complete newbie to PCB, although an old hand at printed circuit boards. Eagle has a facility, both in component packages and on the board, where you can create rectangular areas that are no go for the router. I've spent some time looking, thus far without success, to see if there is an equivalent facility in PCB. That could be because: a) There is no such facility. b) The manual fails to mention it. c) It's there but I'm just missing it. Can anyone confirm that such a facility does/does-not exist? In Eagle these are called restrict layers but searching the geda archive for restrict yielded only some acrimonious discussion about GPL. Thanks Cam Farnell ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Restrict facility?
a) There is no such facility. This one. We've been talking about a redesign to pcb's internals that would allow support for this, but at the moment, we don't have it. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Restrict facility?
You might want to take a look at FreePCB. This is a Windows based PCB layout tool that interfaces to an autorouter which does support keepout regions for the router. www.freepcb.com Rick At 09:47 PM 11/9/2010, you wrote: I am looking at migrating from Eagle to PCB and thus am a complete newbie to PCB, although an old hand at printed circuit boards. Eagle has a facility, both in component packages and on the board, where you can create rectangular areas that are no go for the router. I've spent some time looking, thus far without success, to see if there is an equivalent facility in PCB. That could be because: a) There is no such facility. b) The manual fails to mention it. c) It's there but I'm just missing it. Can anyone confirm that such a facility does/does-not exist? In Eagle these are called restrict layers but searching the geda archive for restrict yielded only some acrimonious discussion about GPL. Thanks Cam Farnell ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
