Eagle Pro: PCB Trace tidying?

[treez]

Hello,

I have just manually routed a PCB , and the traces are messy where i had to "wiggle about" to get from net to net in the dense layout.

If i want to tidy such traces in Cadstar or Altium, i simply go into routing mode, and click on the messy traces and route along them in a neat and tidy way....this tidys the traces up.

...Is it possible to do this kind of track tidying in Eagle Pro?

...or is there another way of tidying the PCB traces in Eagle?

 

[keith1200rs]

I either use MOVE to pull segments around, or if that seems to be making a bigger mess, I delete a few segments and re-route them.

Having a few useful commands on function keys speeds up the use of Eagle. SPLIT, ROUTE, MOVE, DELETE are four very useful ones.

Keith

 

[Alan0354]

Actually that's part of what I was asking before. I don't know of a way to move segment parallelly. Particularly when the segment is 45 deg or 135 deg. All I want is to move the trace segment parallelly but keep the 45 or 135 deg.

I did not push the issue as I am only laying out analog boards that doesn't matter a lot. But if you are doing a digital board, this becomes vitally important for manual routing. Call me old school, I still manual route. I don't trust auto route. Even if you auto route, you still have to check and move traces around. Moving in parallel is vitally important.

 

[keith1200rs]

I don't think you can pull a track while maintaining the 45 degree corners. I tend to end up pulling the corners afterwards to tidy things up after pulling a track. The SPLIT can sometimes help.

Keith

 

[Alan0354]

Thanks, I thought so. That's really a big disadvantage of Eagle. For digital trace, you need to move that all the time. You pull corners, you can't get it right and it'll soon looks like a mess. But I guess it's cheap package.

Also, I really don't like that you set one grid for everything. Often you set fine grid for copper, you use like 25mils for component placement and middle for routing. I found it's so easy to change grid back after you do copper and move a part. Once you more the part with fine grid, you are off. Then you have to change, snap to grid again. It's just very inconvenient.

 

[keith1200rs]

I assume you are using the ALT grid? (hold down the ALT key while performing operations to get a finer grid[normally])

Keith