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Etch spacing

justintesmer

Ok so, I'm trying to make a quick and dirty board without a netlist because it consist of only cantact pads and solder pads.  However, i have two pads that need to connect, then connect to a via and I cannot get OrCAD to stop displacing the copper on one of the padswhen using route->connect.  I triedunchecking the "replace etch" check box in the options, i tried using lines of top copper rather than a route, i triedusing the "defer dynamic copper" option, but nothing has worked so far.  the bottom of the board has single pads that connect to the vias no problem, but for some reason i canot connect two pads together, both defined as top copped on a dummy net.  any ideas?

thanks,

-justin

  • David G

    Justin,

    have you tried setting the bubble option to off when routing

    this should work

     david

  • justintesmer
    Yes, bubble is set to "off" in the options tab.
  • redwire

    Hmmm sounds strange. Can you post up your brd file?  

  • justintesmer

     have a go at it

    http://www.4shared.com/file/121523987/4618f183/connection_board_side_a_fanout_v1.html

     

    thanks,

    -j

  • redwire

    Ok, I see your board but you didn't leave any hint traces on there... I think I know what you're trying to do. On the top copper, go ahead and change the shape type to static (Shape->Change Shape type) and it will work with a DRC.


    Allegro actually thinks of the dynamics as two different nets even though they are both "dummy"

    Does that work for you?

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