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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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