Altium Designer 6 routing design rules question

[pacikk]

Hi everybody,
Is there a way in Altium 6 to specify a routing rule which defines
that a particular class of nets can be routed on a particular layer
but not go over a certain area?
It's like having a keepout but only for a certain class of nets.

Thanks,
Patrick

 

[Brad Velander]

Patrick,
I am not sure that there is any easy way to define such an exclusion
zone for a particular net class. The whole logic of Altium rules tends to be
rules to allow actions rather than disallow. The only suggestion I could
make would be to route those nets while placing some form of a keepout
arrangement (fills, layer specific keepouts or polygon) in that particular
area, later remove it or temporarily shift it to another or non-routing
layer.

--
Sincerely,
Brad Velander.

"pacikk" <patrik.camilleri@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi everybody,
Is there a way in Altium 6 to specify a routing rule which defines
that a particular class of nets can be routed on a particular layer
but not go over a certain area?
It's like having a keepout but only for a certain class of nets.

Thanks,
Patrick

 

[pacikk]

On Apr 1, 5:57 am, "Brad Velander" <bvel...@SpamThis.com> wrote:

Patrick,
I am not sure that there is any easy way to define such an exclusion
zone for a particular net class. The whole logic of Altium rules tends to be
rules to allow actions rather than disallow. The only suggestion I could
make would be to route those nets while placing some form of a keepout
arrangement (fills, layer specific keepouts or polygon) in that particular
area, later remove it or temporarily shift it to another or non-routing
layer.

--
Sincerely,
Brad Velander.

"pacikk" <patrik.camill...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1175345651.413401.7990@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

Hi everybody,
Is there a way in Altium 6 to specify a routing rule which defines
that a particular class of nets can be routed on a particular layer
but not go over a certain area?
It's like having a keepout but only for a certain class of nets.

Thanks,
Patrick

Hi Brad,
thanks again for the reply. I'll definitely take up your suggestion
of routing the designing in 2 steps, first with the keepout and the
net class in question and then removing the keepout to route the
remainder of the nets. It should work nicely.

Regards,
Patrick