Re: gEDA-user: Restrict facility?

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:00:16 +0100
Dietmar Schmunkamp <dietmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Am 10.11.2010 19:06, schrieb Colin D Bennett:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:09:50 -0500
> > DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >>>   a) There is no such facility.
> >>
> >> This one.  We've been talking about a redesign to pcb's internals
> >> that would allow support for this, but at the moment, we don't
> >> have it.
> > 
> > Could you emulate it in the current version of pcb by drawing a
> > rectangle/polygon on the area you wish to become the keep-out
> > region? Would the autorouter then avoid it?
> > 
> The trick with the rectangle works, I used it on my board to separate
> the control section (TTL) of a solid state relais from the 220 V
> section. The autorouter kept the digital signals on one side and the
> 220 V signals on the other side.

Good to hear.  Also, I just ran across Chapter 4 in the pcb user
manual, which covers the autorouter.  It mentions a slightly different
method of drawing âcontinuous linesâ to define keep-out zones.

Regards,
Colin


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