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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:32:38 +0200
From: Jan Kasprzak <kas AT fi DOT muni DOT cz>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Trace width - best practices?
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Stephen Ecob wrote:
: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Jan Kasprzak <kas AT fi DOT muni DOT cz> wrote:
: >
: > in my board, I want to have some connections built for higher currents.
: > Is it possible to mark them somehow (maybe even at the schmatics level?),
: > and then let the autorouter to do its work, or do they need to be routed
: > manually?
: 
: That would be a nice feature, but PCB doesn't have it.
: It has been discussed, but no one has implemented it yet.
: Are you interested in hacking the code ? :)

	Currently I am too busy with real job (doing computer programming
mostly), and hacking electronics is my leisure time project - I don't want
to go back to programming for that :). However, I can offer my students
to do some improvements to gEDA as their semestral project, if you (and they!)
are interested.  The problem is somebody would have to mentor them, and from
my experience, the results can be of varying quality: there are excellent
students, but there are also bad ones, who cause only a loss of mentor's
time in exchange for an unusable result.

: > Note that I don't want the whole net to be made from wider traces,
: > only connections between some of the pins of the same net should be made wider.
: 
: You'll need to route the wider portions manually.

	Can optimizers be applied to manually routed traced as well?
The problem is that when I manually trace something, I have some freedom
for modifying the layout. So it would be good if later the autorouter
for singal-sized paths could ask me something like "can you move this
via 100 mils to the right, please?"

	OK, I will try to route the wide paths manually, but I am probably
no match for the pcb autorouter :-)

-Y.

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