[PCB_FORUM] Re: Change trace net... How? easy way?
- From: <george.h.patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:36:47 -0800
I guess I am just too nasty. I'd tell him "we have to reroute it" just
to teach him a lesson about not doing dumb stuff.
Then I'd clipboard it out of the original board (edit > export >and
re-import it after I'd deleted the GND etch and let him stress out a
bit.
I might even let him know I'd done it ;>
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[mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J.C.Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 15:28
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Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Change trace net... How? easy way?
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:09:59 -0800, "Gene Carman"
<gcarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Have a design that is fully routed, but the engineer needs a change.
He attempted to do it himself, and now has managed to connect a critical
net to ground. That net winds all over the board, (control net) and we
want to retain the current routing... but since it is now part of the
fill, it is stuck as GND.
>
>Is there anyway to grab that cline and change the net, thus forcing the
fill shape back?
>
>(this is not the first time for this type of problem for this
engineer... thus proving that a bit of knowledge can indeed be a
dangerous thing.)
Take the original board (i.e. the one before you imported the new
netlist) and disconnect the ends of the trace you want to save. (i.e.
delete the small cline SEGMENTS that attach to the pins, leaving the
rest of your routed cline)
THEN, import the new netlist.
Since the remaining chunk of the cline is not on a net, you can attach
it to whatever pin/net you want.
Kind regards,
JCR
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