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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Eagle Tip - add a nice looking "ground plane" to your boards

2006-07-11 by Dave Hylands

Hi Dennis,

On 7/10/06, dl5012 <dl5012@...> wrote:
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Young" <mikewhy@...> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> > Set its signal name is GND and Eagle will start routing to it.
>
> How do you prevent isolated GND fill from being used?  How do you
> specify trace width for connecting?  My connections are all zero
> width...

You can choose Change->Width and click on the polygon that describes
the ground plane to control the width of connections.

If you Do Change->Orphans->Off then you won't get any orphaned fills.

-- 
Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/

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