[sdiy] What's your fav PCB package?

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On Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 19:45, Ingo Debus wrote:
> I'm aware that Eagle has a pretty long history and started as a DOS
> program. Perhaps that's why it's a bit unconventional by today's
> standards.

If you want to understand the quirks of the GUI, you should recognize 
that all actions in the GUI are actually translated into command lines 
that are then interpreted by the EAGLE core. Hence the need to start 
off with the tool button (indeed you can also just type the command in 
an then finish it's parametrization in the GUI).

> By the way, when you use flood fill for ground planes on double-sided
> boards, do you route ground traces first, or do you rely on on the
> flood fill that it will "somehow" connect all the ground pins?

Whether you should do this first is a matter of debate, in my own 
experience trying to complete it before or postpone it until after the 
signal routing leads to suboptimal results. It is important to dedicate 
traces (star topology) to any nodes that will carry significant 
current, you can then use the flood fill as reference plane (you still 
have to open loops and watch for unwanted parasitics, especially when 
changing sides).


Achim.
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