Hi All,
any users of Sprint layout able to answer the following:
I've created a pcb outline from a scanned image - but when I run DRC it picks all the drill holes showing them with a green square and saying they're too close? That would seem odd as the original circuit is from the 1980's and is quite basic, just single sided. This is my first time using it so I may be missing something simple in how I traced the original.
Any assistance is gratefully received.
Thanks
Joe
any users of Sprint layout able to answer the following:
I've created a pcb outline from a scanned image - but when I run DRC it picks all the drill holes showing them with a green square and saying they're too close? That would seem odd as the original circuit is from the 1980's and is quite basic, just single sided. This is my first time using it so I may be missing something simple in how I traced the original.
Any assistance is gratefully received.
Thanks
Joe
Solved, here's how:
Ok so I'd done the trace of the layout as a single sided board, then noticed from the pad dropdown list that I could make each connection Through Hole so it appeared as a pad on the other side of the board. From past experience , Boards that I'd populated or worked on like this seemed more robust, so I thought - Ok I'll change to that. So then I just re did all the pads I'd done previously and picked up the fault. By overlaying pads the program must have thought there were two and threw up the fault of drill holes too close. Going through the whole board again and deleting the first pad and leaving the through hole one solved the problem. To do this I found it best to reduce the T/H, then highlight and delete the pad below it, then increase the T/H Pad again. That way there was no chance of the layout moving. Simple mistake, I figured the design would just update. But I'm glad it worked out. I've got to say for a newbie, what I wanted to achieve, it was a simple tool to use.
Best
Joe
Ok so I'd done the trace of the layout as a single sided board, then noticed from the pad dropdown list that I could make each connection Through Hole so it appeared as a pad on the other side of the board. From past experience , Boards that I'd populated or worked on like this seemed more robust, so I thought - Ok I'll change to that. So then I just re did all the pads I'd done previously and picked up the fault. By overlaying pads the program must have thought there were two and threw up the fault of drill holes too close. Going through the whole board again and deleting the first pad and leaving the through hole one solved the problem. To do this I found it best to reduce the T/H, then highlight and delete the pad below it, then increase the T/H Pad again. That way there was no chance of the layout moving. Simple mistake, I figured the design would just update. But I'm glad it worked out. I've got to say for a newbie, what I wanted to achieve, it was a simple tool to use.
Best
Joe
