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Paul Burridge
Guest
Hi all,
I'm trying to get to grips with Pulsonix, with mixed success so far.
The main difficulty I'm having is translating a finished schematic
into a fully-tracked board layout.
Firstly, I go for "translate to PCB" and I get a blank board with the
components distributed around the outside of it, all interconnected by
yellow virtual wires. So far, all well and good. Then the problems
start.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to go for Tools/autoplace/full autoplace
and see everything neatly set out, but all that happens is the
components are thrown onto the board willy-nilly in any old position.
Increasing the number of passes and re-executing the command seems to
result in no improvement whatsoever. I have to reposition each
component individually to make the layout sensible and reduce the
number of crossed wires that Autoplace originally gave rise to.
Having optimised the layout by hand, I then hit Tools/auto route/route
whole design whereupon a minority of the virtual connecting wires are
translated into PCB tracks, leaving most of them completely unaltered!
Again, repeated passes fail to create any more of the connections into
proper tracks and I have to "edit segment" them all individually
again. That's hard work too, since instead of being 'elastic' in their
properies as they were in the previous stage, the tracks fold up and
cross over when one shortens them by moving components closer
together! These are the biggest problems I've discovered so far. Any
ideas, anyone?
--
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I'm trying to get to grips with Pulsonix, with mixed success so far.
The main difficulty I'm having is translating a finished schematic
into a fully-tracked board layout.
Firstly, I go for "translate to PCB" and I get a blank board with the
components distributed around the outside of it, all interconnected by
yellow virtual wires. So far, all well and good. Then the problems
start.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to go for Tools/autoplace/full autoplace
and see everything neatly set out, but all that happens is the
components are thrown onto the board willy-nilly in any old position.
Increasing the number of passes and re-executing the command seems to
result in no improvement whatsoever. I have to reposition each
component individually to make the layout sensible and reduce the
number of crossed wires that Autoplace originally gave rise to.
Having optimised the layout by hand, I then hit Tools/auto route/route
whole design whereupon a minority of the virtual connecting wires are
translated into PCB tracks, leaving most of them completely unaltered!
Again, repeated passes fail to create any more of the connections into
proper tracks and I have to "edit segment" them all individually
again. That's hard work too, since instead of being 'elastic' in their
properies as they were in the previous stage, the tracks fold up and
cross over when one shortens them by moving components closer
together! These are the biggest problems I've discovered so far. Any
ideas, anyone?
--
The BBC: Licensed at public expense to spread lies.
