Re: gEDA-user: Breaking up power planes

[Russell Dill <russd@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Russell Dill wrote:
>
>> I'm just wondering what everyones preferred method of breaking up
>> power/ground planes is.
>
> My preferred method is to break the planes as little as possible :-)
> IMHO, a continuous copper plane is the best you can get for shielding
> purposes. If large amounts current need to be canalized, I prefer to
> guide them in fat tracks rather than polygons. With tracks it is easier
> to ensure a minimum diameter.
>

My design has several different power and IO rails, and so it requires
split power planes.I realize its possible to do with the polygon
editor, it just seems like it'd be much easier with the line drawing
tool.


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