Homebrew PCBs

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:15:22 -0600
>    From: "Mike Young" <mikewhy@...>
> Subject: Copper pours with Eagle
>
> The "trick" to doing this is to first ripup the traces on the layer with
> the
> pour. I tried this (in vain, frustratingly) first on a board that was
> already routed, thinking it should carve the bottom traces into the new
> pour. This apparently doesn't work. Many long minutes were spent this way;
> it felt like hours, weeks. I even gave in and read the manual. A root
> canal
> would have been more fun. And then tossing caution to the wind (not
> really;
> the file was backed up safely), I ripped up the bottom traces and gave it
> a
> clean slate to work with. The simplest way to do this is to turn off all
> other signal layers and ripup all the signals. (Semi-colon does this
> nicely,
> automatically.)


I have never had any trouble doing a copper pour after routing in eagle...
just lay down the polygon, and hit the ratsnest button to have it carve the
traces... I just tried it again (to make sure I wasn't crazy) and it does
indeed work...


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