[PCB_FORUM] how do YOU handle component spacing rules?

  • From: "Gene Carman" <gcarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:29:51 -0700

Is there a way to set a component type to component type rule?  What I =
mean is that certain component types tend to have different rules... =
such as 0402 to 0402 verses 0402 to SOT or BGA.

The only rules I have found are pad to pad... which does not allow for =
different type rules.

I spoke to some other designers and they offered two solutions:  One is =
to build visual indicators into the parts so you can tell if your 0402 =
is too close to another 0402 or BGA... great, no DRC there.  The other =
solution is simply use grids and place them... again no DRC.

I have different customers that require different spacings.  One =
customer wants 20 mils between 0402 pads, another wants 25.  Customer 1 =
wants 50 mils between BGA and 0402, customer 2 wants 40 mils between BGA =
and any other comp. =20

With other tools I had the ability to assign components to a component =
type and then assign rules of type to type.  I don't see a way to do =
that in Allegro (15.1) (very similar to net type rules in Allegro, for =
component to component spacing)

What do you do?
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