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Re: programmers pay attention

2004-10-08 by crankorgan

With the Eagle program you can FILL the ground plane around the
traces. Hans told us how many messages back. I used this method on my
Piker board. All ground points are the same large trace. Very little
etching required. Done correctly there are no ground loops. 



--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "daveismissing"
<shootme007@h...> wrote:
> 
> Why isn't all this software done the other way 'round?
> I really just want to define how much space I want between traces. 
> I want all the rest to be trace.
> Less etchant, no erosion issues, easier for TT  etc....
> crazy?

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