Homebrew PCBs

Just to throw my 2p in. I use PCB wizard and I only used the auto routing once. I had 12 wire links and most of them spanned either the width or the length of the board. It seems universal that the autoroute facility is 'pants'. I did the board by hand and ended up with 4 links all 8mm long...... The PCB was a whole lot smaller and better laid out to :-D

Do it by hand whatever software you use!

regards

Fenris

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "sailingto" <sailingtoo@...> wrote:
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> I'm sure glad to hear that I'm not the only person who doesn't like auto-routing.  It just doesn't go where I want, and when I try to clean up the rat's nest of traces it seems to take longer than manually routing from the start.
> 
> 73 de Ken H>
> 
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Barry Demers <sdad@> wrote:
> >
> > Not very long ago I was in same situation as you.  I needed single sided
> > boards.  Beyond that, sometimes you need specific traces on specific side of
> > board.  So how is that done?  Read and experiment with layers and lines.
> > All objects, including traces have properties and layer is one of those
> > properties.  In general, you can change properties at will, and you can move
> > traces around at will.  For my single side boards I started  with the rat's
> > nest and kept moving things around I had as few lines as possible crossing
> > each other.  Using that positioning as a guide I then started introducing
> > traces until I was satisfied.  Really is fun!  A lot like a labyrinth
> > puzzle.
> > Autorouting created a mess, especially when you start to edit the autorouted
> > traces, because you now have to start paying attention to signal id
> > number's, etc being altered
> > 
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@>wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > You are trying to run before you can walk, learn to manually route!
> > >
> > > Autorouters won't give decent results anyway.
> > >
> > > ST
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:39 PM, AD5VJ Bob <rtnmi@<rtnmi%40sbcglobal.net>>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I downloaded and am trying to use Eagle CAD program for my first board. I
> > > went to
> > > > http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=109 and
> > > did the little tutorial they have there for a serial to USB
> > > > adapter since it looked pretty simple and the free Eagle will handle
> > > small stuff.
> > > >
> > > > The problem I am having is in the board layout. I am wanting to do this
> > > board as a single sided board and eagle keeps auto routing
> > > > as a double sided board.
> > > >
> > > > I have looked into the help file and can not find out how to tell eagle I
> > > want a single sided board layout. It doesn't seem to be to
> > > > intuitive so I am thinking there is a setting somewhere to do this, but
> > > where?
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone use Eagle who can help me out with this?
> > > >
> > > > Bob AD5VJ
> > > >
> > > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Barry
> > 
> > 
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