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Where do I find Autorouter in Autodesk Eagle?
Open your PCB layout (.brd) file from your Autodesk EAGLE Control Panel. Select the Autorouter tool on the left-hand side of your interface to open the Autorouter Main Setup dialog. You’re in complete control of the autorouter setup with settings for effort, CPU threads, and routing directions.
What does a green net mean in Autodesk Eagle?
If we go ahead and select the Route tool in Autodesk EAGLE and then select a green net, you can see what happens in the image. All elements that belong to the net are highlighted in bright green, giving you an easy to follow map of your locations for your routes. The bright green nets show which two pads need to be connected when routing.
How does Autodesk Eagle make your job easier?
Another way Autodesk EAGLE makes your job easier! If we go ahead and select the Route tool in Autodesk EAGLE and then select a green net, you can see what happens in the image. All elements that belong to the net are highlighted in bright green, giving you an easy to follow map of your locations for your routes.
When to use autorouter to optimize placement?
Optimizing Placement. After placing all of your components, you can then use the autorouter to see how optimized your components are placed. If the autorouter returns a completion result of 85% or greater than you know you did a good job of placing your parts. If not, consider pushing your parts around. Discovering Bottlenecks.
Can you use autorouter with manual routing in Eagle?
The autorouter is not very smart. With complex boards you cannot expect to just run the autorouter and get everything routed perfectly. But you can also combine the autoroute with manual routing. Post your questions and comments in the comment field below. Learn how to draw a ground plane in Eagle.
When to call Eagle autorouter, when to use electronics lab?
When you are stuck on a section and don’t know how to route your parts, then you can call the autorouter to see how it takes care of the job, then try routing that same spot yourself with your new perspective. You might just find a strategy for your traces that you didn’t see before your autorouter gave it a try.
Which is the default NET class in Eagle autorouter?
The “default” net is the one that is used by default. We’ll start by setting the width to 16 mil. Add a new class by clicking on the next unused line. Type in a descriptive name such as “ground”. Set the with of this net class to 24mil. As mentioned, all nets will have the net class “default” by default.
How to make custom footprints in Eagle SparkFun?
Our Testing and Quality Control Manager, Pete Lewis, figured out a good system to utilize Eagle’s built-in image importer so that we could get exact footprints created for the problem parts. As mentioned, this tutorial requires some intermediate skills with Eagle.
How can I make my own custom footprint?
The idea is to import images of parts to create a customized footprint that matches the footprint on the component, and it can be done simply using the tools that Eagle provides. As always, necessity is the mother of invention, and is what sparked using this Eagle tool here at SparkFun.
How can I change the color of my Eagle footprint?
Also note that the color of the imported image is the color of the Eagle layer on which it was imported (200 is the default) and that by selecting only the first box of colors we get the component as positive space (blue) and the pads as negative space. Moving the imported image over the center of the footprint might seem a bit tricky.