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Dangling Line report

TH Designs

When I run the Dangling Line, etc.... report, it returns a bunch of errors. When I look into these errors, I can not see anything wrong.

Where are the settigns configured for this check and is there a utility that will clean up any dangling lines?

Don't suggest Gloss, I ran that and ended up with several traces running through mounting holes.

Tom

  • budnoel

    Sometimes these dangling lines are extremely hard to see.  I've found that sometimes there is a tiny cline extending from the center of the target pin and I've had to delete all clines and reconnect them to correct the error.  I've included an example below.  Not sure if this is the problem but it's what I've experienced in the past.

  • DawnC

    Another trick is to turn off everything but Etch.  Then snap to the coordinates.

  • TH Designs
    budnoel said:

    Sometimes these dangling lines are extremely hard to see.  I've found that sometimes there is a tiny cline extending from the center of the target pin and I've had to delete all clines and reconnect them to correct the error.  I've included an example below.  Not sure if this is the problem but it's what I've experienced in the past.

    Yup, those are the little devils causing me some headaches.

    The big battle now is that it seems that any via that does not have a trace from the top to bottom layer is causing errors. For example, a via from inner layer 2 to inner layer 4 shows as an "antenna via" eventhough the trace routing is perfectly acceptable.

    I need to find where thes get specified, or at least where the trace layer to layer pairs get set up.

    Tom

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